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He prepared for the war in such an orderly manner.

When the light of dawn shone into the Governor's Mansion 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 mirror-like deer-skin boots, holding the office keys and the brass-handled purple clay insulation tea cups brought from home. He looked cold and walked out of the stairs like a machine killer. More than a dozen officers of the military headquarters and the Governor's Mansion hurriedly followed behind 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 tea cup was customized from Yixing and the price is not high because he likes to drink tea and has 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 tea cups. The thick layer of cup walls 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 a 500,000 army of iron lions. This number is obviously a bit exaggerated, because the numbers on the militia are always very chaotic. How many people are there in the patrol troops of the three eastern provinces? This is really high and low, and it is always water when squeezed.

The number of the 237,400 new troops in the Northeast is absolutely true. In June, 44,000 new recruits were just 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 was Ai Feng, the first thing he had to do now was to book a one-way ticket to Singapore, because reality is so 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 realistic 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 is dreaming of Manchu rule over the spring and autumn, one is waiting at home to be re-activated, and one has just gone 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, it is a real military flavor.

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 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 worked secretly around the world, but no one knew what the organization was 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, sent the flower pots in the room to the balcony, and replaced them with a pot of fresh bonsai.

Everyone in the entire offices of the Governor's Office began to be busy or even busier at this moment. Only Song Biao could simply look at today's "Northeast Daily" and the "Daily Information Minutes" submitted by the Secretariat, and open the purple clay tea cup and drink a sip of tea.

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 will 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 ranks above millions of people, and everyone must look up to him. Every word he says and every order 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 serve 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 though 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 obsessed with him for this. There are so many people who are blindly willing to serve him for the rest of their lives that they cannot be counted. Even if he almost doesn't know 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 waited for the first order this morning in the corridor outside the door.

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 those of the newspapers such as Shenbao. The Northeast Daily mainly 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 in the mining, metallurgy and textile industries.

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 judgments on expectations, the scale of production has appeared in this year, and the two sides have reached a point where the entire industry has suffered a full loss in price wars.

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 sponsored the development of the aircraft by Chinese American engineer Feng Ru in Oakland, San Francisco. After that, they reached cooperation agreements with Americans G.H. Curtis, Glenn Martin, and Romanian engineer Henry Coanda. After Song Biao's second visit to the United States, Feng Ru led the team recruited from the United States to return to the Shenyang New District to establish the Shenyang Aircraft Company, responsible for building the first domestic aircraft, the 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, during the period when Song Biao was reading the newspaper, soybeans, beets, wheat, potatoes and corn in the northeast were continuously transported to various places and ports along the 8,220-kilometer-long railway system of the three northeastern provinces.

Song Biao had read a report before, saying that potatoes and milk combined can meet all the nutrients that humans need normally, and potatoes are the only grain crops that can be planted for two seasons a year in the three northeastern provinces. This is the main reason why Song Biao vigorously promotes potato planting in the three northeastern provinces.

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 abundances in various places in the pass. While reporting on how high the income and low taxes of farmers in the pass, the lives of farmers in the pass are difficult and the taxes are heavy, especially in the 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 tax of arable land per mu of land in the three northeastern provinces is about 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 a paradise.

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 harsh taxes and absurd incidents in areas governing Manchuria. In addition, various happy reports in the three eastern provinces, the comparison between the two sides is opposing Manchuria.

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 Customs, and the Deputy Director Ouyang Xi came to report on this.

The current situation is that life in Northeast China is better, and Japan is still busy, and the inner city is like hell.

Song Biao called out the first call in the morning, and the new political situation suddenly shook. Everyone was busy. Ouyang Xi, who was a scholar, could only hurriedly hold all the information in his arms and go to the third floor.

When he arrived at Song Biao's office, Ouyang Xi brought more than 600 pages of information.

Song Biao looked at Ouyang Xi strangely, thinking that you can tell all the information of more than 600 pages in these fifteen minutes? But he still let Ouyang Xi sit in front of him first and reminded him kindly: "If you have any questions, then just say it simply. If you don't organize it, we will make another appointment in the afternoon."

He is a very realistic person. Since he wants to rely on the other party to govern the three northeastern provinces, he still has to be particularly friendly. After all, the other party is not a soldier.

Ouyang Xi hurriedly replied: "It has been sorted out. As of October, the total export volume of the three eastern provinces in Hanguan in the first year of Xuantong was 530 million yuan. It is expected to reach 750 million yuan by the end of the year. The next two months mainly focus on the export of soybeans and other grains, as well as the export volume of major export products such as coal, steel, cashmere, and sugar before December."

After saying this, Ouyang Xi submitted the statistics and forecast report of the Foreign Trade Department to Song Biao.

Song Biao took the report and looked carefully. The current basic export situation of the three northeastern provinces is similar to that of Japan. It exports soybeans, coal, mineral products, cashmere, sugar, wood, fur to the international market, and exports sugar, textiles, steel, glass, kerosene lamps, matches, hardware, watches, copper products and other primary industrial products to the international market. It also sells grain on a large scale.

The Sino-Japanese Economic and Trade War is a war between the three northeastern provinces and Japan. At present, there is no conflict in the fields of tea, raw silk, soybeans, sugar, and cashmere. There are large-scale collisions in other aspects. In particular, the impact of coal and iron and textile fields has reached a shocking point. Basically, the coal and iron fields of the three northeastern provinces have an advantage, while Japan has an advantage in the textile fields.

Northeast soybeans are still the main product of foreign trade exports in the three eastern provinces. This year, it is expected to export 1.75 million tons of soybeans, accounting for 60% of the total international market demand. The first time it is expected to exceed the single foreign trade volume of 40 million pounds. Coal is expected to export 24.7 million tons, steel is expected to export 1.85 million tons, the remaining grain is expected to export 5.5 million tons, sugar is expected to export 920,000 tons, and textiles are expected to export 14 million silver dollars to the country, North Korea and Southeast Asia, which are the six major export categories in Northeast China.

Just as Song Biao was reading the report, Ouyang Xi asked tentatively: "There are two questions to be reported to you in the Zhongtang Finance Department. First, should the coal tax be directly reported to the general account this year, or should the additional account be added to the special tax? Second, the textile industry has suffered losses this year, and all the companies have suffered great losses. It just so happened that the tax preferential treatment of some large factories has expired, and they have lost all their money to compete with Japan's textile industry. The Textile Association proposes whether the Governor's Office can delay the tax preferential treatment for another two years."

Song Biao thought for a while and asked Ouyang Xi: "Have the estimated value of total taxes and total fiscal revenue this year come out?"

Ouyang Xi replied: "It's out. The total tax revenue of the three northeastern provinces this year is expected to be 175 million silver dollars, and the total fiscal revenue is about 250 million silver dollars. The total contribution of agricultural tax and mining tax exceeds 70%, and the coal tax accounts for 70% of the mining tax. Our current gross national income value of the three northeastern provinces is about twice that of Japan, but our average tax rate is roughly equivalent to that of the UK, half lower than Japan, and slightly higher than that of the United States. As for the total tax of the textile industry in the three northeastern provinces, the total tax amount is really not much, and it is expected to be around 11 million silver dollars throughout the year."

Song Biao roughly thought about it in his mind and said: "Coal tax and mining general tax are included in the tax table of the Finance Department. What should be disclosed must always be made public. As for the textile industry, what is the situation in Japan?"

Ouyang Xi replied: "The Japan Textile Industry Association is also actively lobbying the government to adopt special preferential policies for the textile industry. It is said that half of the business tax will be reduced and all business taxes will be exempted from the export part, which is the normal so-called export tax rebate. We are at a disadvantage in this regard, because our textile industry exports to the outside world are mainly to North Korea and Southeast Asia, as well as British rental areas such as Hong Kong and Singapore. The total amount is not large. The places where our textile industry and Japan's textile industry are mainly in the customs office. The two sides are fighting too hard, and they will suffer heavy losses from cotton cloth to cotton yarn. This is indeed beyond everyone's expectations, mainly Japanese textile industry

The profit rate of weaving industry in the past few years was above 10%. For example, Mitsui, the net profit rate of internal and external cotton was even as high as 28%. The eight major textile companies in Japan not only expanded production in China, but also actively set up factories in China. Among them, there are more than 20 Japanese textile factories opened in the three northeastern provinces alone. Local textile companies in the three northeastern provinces and capital textile manufacturers in the United Kingdom, France, the United States and Russia are also expanding. Almost all of our production capacity expansion began to explode in this year. Each of them has huge inventory. Japan has already dumped on a large scale in my country. Local textile companies in the three northeastern provinces can only face it at lower prices in order to maintain their hard-earned market share."

Speaking of this, he continued to persuade: "Zhongtang, I personally think that the government is going to come forward. If the Governor's Office of the three northeastern provinces does not urgently rescue local textile companies, although the eight major textile companies in Japan are destined to suffer heavy losses this year. After all, they have a huge profit in the Japanese local market and our companies cannot hold on. Then the major plan for revitalizing the textile industry we planned before will be a complete defeat. When these companies are forced to go bankrupt, the Japanese textile companies will definitely overcome this difficulty in full swing and will fight back next year even more fiercely."

Song Biao nodded silently and said, "Rong Xingqiao has reported on this matter to me. This afternoon, Yu Qiaqing, president of the Textile Industry Association of the Three East Provinces, Pan Sichi, and Zhang Bishi, also met with me to petition. You said that our three east provinces cannot rely on the textile industry, but must rely on the coal industry. It was true before, but fortunately you proposed it in time, otherwise the consequences today would be unimaginable. In principle, I mean that the business tax will continue to be reduced by half. At the same time, I found a way to raise some funds to alleviate the financial difficulties of each factory."

Ouyang Xi said: "Zhongtang, I personally think that even if the business tax is exempted, it cannot cure the root cause. The problem now is that Japanese companies have already constituted dumping against China. We should follow Germany and France to formulate the Anti-Dumping Act and impose huge tariffs on Japanese textiles."

Song Biao nodded slightly and said, "The laws involving the tariff field are always subject to the unequal treaties signed by the Qing court and the great powers of various countries. The three northeastern provinces are almost powerless in this regard. Now they can only think of other solutions. The conflict between the three northeastern provinces and the Japanese economy in the process of development is absolutely inevitable. Perhaps in the next ten years, the Sino-Japanese economic and trade war will be the only theme of China's economic development. Unless we can fundamentally directly change China's tariffs and protect the domestic market."

Speaking of this, Song Biao could only smile bitterly.

Ouyang Xi comforted: "From the overall trade situation, we still have the advantage in general. Although Japanese textile companies dumped large-scale in China, they did not make money, and no matter how much they make, they could not stop this level of half-price dumping. Last year, Japan's total textile exports to China reached nearly 70 million silver dollars, but this year it plummeted to 23 million silver dollars. Not only did the sales volume drop by 40%, but the price also hit a huge hit. No normal companies could stop this loss.

The account was calculated with Panschi. The only eight major Japanese textile companies did not lose money last year was Shejin Textiles Corporation, and the other seven companies all suffered losses of at least 300,000 yen. The most powerful one was Mitsui Products, which invested and expanded in China, with a heavy loss of more than one million yen, which was equivalent to spit out the total marketing profits of the textile industry in China in the previous years. The textile industry in the three eastern provinces was Far East Textile Corporation, which is expected to lose 1.2 million Kanto Silver Dollar throughout the year."

Song Biao thought silently for a moment, and took out the schedule today and took a look at it roughly. There was no important arrangement in the morning, so he said to Ouyang Xi directly: "You go and notify Yu Qiaqing, Pan Sichi and Zhang Bishi, and come to my office before 9 o'clock to discuss countermeasures. Don't delay this issue anymore, just deal with it this morning."

Ouyang Xi immediately stood up and said, "Yes, I'll make arrangements now."

After saying this, he hurriedly left the office to inform the three textile giants from the three northeastern provinces to come to attend the interview.

The Sino-Japanese Economic and Trade War has begun since the signing of the Qing-Japan Trade Treaty in 1872. Before the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, Chinese businessmen have always dominated the economy and trade, and since then, Japanese businessmen have gradually dominated the economy. However, this was not considered a real trade war. Since 1909, the Sino-Japanese Economic and Trade War finally started to fight from the textile industry, and both sides fought very fiercely.

The industrial level of the three northeastern provinces is definitely one level lower than that of Japan, but the industrial products of the two sides are basically overlapping. For every 3 percentage points increase in foreign sales in the three northeastern provinces, Japan's exports will decline by 1 percentage point.

The reason why the Sino-Japanese Economic and Trade War suddenly broke out on a large scale in 1909 was that of the first year of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty and the 42nd year of Meiji in Japan. The main reason for this was that the eight major textile companies in Japan were expanding their production scale in their local and Chinese markets. The ethnic textile industry and foreign-funded textile industry in the three eastern provinces also expanded wildly. In 1909, the market was oversaturated.

As exports to China were first affected, the products of the eight major textile companies in Japan and various small and medium-sized textile companies were accumulated in the Japanese local market, and they were forced to set off a wave of price reduction in Japan. Immediately, this wave of price reduction quickly affected the Chinese market, and the markets of the three eastern provinces responded the most violently. Since then, the battles in Tianjin, Shanghai, Qingdao, Jinan and Wuchang have become even more tragic.

In 1907, the total market of China's textile industry was around 120 million yuan, and 70% was imported. Japan accounted for 70% of the 70% imports, and there were many giant companies. By 1909, the textile industry in the three eastern provinces developed rapidly, and the number of Japanese investment in textile factories in China surged, and the proportion of textile industry imports in the total market fell rapidly to 33%.

As of April 1909, the total spindles of the textile industry in the three northeastern provinces had increased to 1.58 million spindles, reaching the level of Japan in 1904, while Japan increased to 2.73 million spindles during the same period, and the total number of spindles in other textile factories in the Custody increased to 1.52 million spindles. The war in the textile industry is unavoidable.

According to data provided by the Finance Department of the Three East China Provinces, after May 1909, Japan's textile price index fell by 7.4%. The average textile price index of Kanto textile price index fell by 13.3%, the average textile price index of North Korea's Incheon market fell by 9.2%. The average decline of Shanghai, Qingdao, Jinan and Tianjin in Kan was 23.5%.

Because the average profit margin of the textile industry is only 8%, which is considered very good companies higher than this value, such as the eight major companies such as Mitsui, Osaka, Zhongyuan, and Sejin. Even if they are not well-managed companies lower than this value, almost the entire industry will suffer a collective weight loss if it falls below this value.

Because Mitsui Products invested in the largest Shanghai Textile Company in Shanghai, which is the hardest hit by the price plummeting, Mitsui Products' losses are naturally the most powerful. The total losses of Far East Textile Corporation are even stronger than Mitsui Products.

What can I do if I lose?
To be continued...