In less than five days, Zheng Tao brought good news that the Russian Far East Military Region agreed to purchase canned food and spirits from the Northeast.

However, Zheng Tao far underestimated the Russians' appetite.

With the price unchanged, the Far East Military Region Command directly took 20% of the profit.

Seeing Zheng Tao with a calm face and not speaking, Colonel Yuri also knew that for the Liaodong Army, 10% of the profits were likely to be profits.

Thinking that those generals with share-sharing in the headquarters are not nobles whom they can offend, Colonel Yuri could only grit his teeth and say, "Minister Zheng, I have no choice. I know that this share-sharing will definitely cause a lot of losses, so I decided to give up the share-sharing!"

Zheng Tao looked gloomy on the surface, but after hearing Yuri's decision, his face looked much better. In fact, Zheng Tao was already happy.

As Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Zheng Tao knows the cost of canned food and soju wine more than anyone else.

Although the price of canned meat is 20% lower than that of raw meat, the real cost is less than half of the selling price. The reason why it is so cheap is that on the one hand, the beef and mutton in the canned factory are purchased from Mongolian herders. It is originally 30% to 40% cheaper than on the market. On the other hand, it is because the canned meat contains a lot of starch and seasonings. In a can of meat, expensive meat products only account for half of the price, and the rest are all cheap starch.

As for soju, let alone.

The raw materials for brewing soju are all the cheapest coarse grains in the three northeastern provinces, and the cost is less than 40% of the price.

Even if the Russians divided the profits, the remaining profits would still be profitable for the Liaodong Army.

A large sum of silver.

Seeing the heartache expression on Yuri's face because he gave up half of the profit, Zheng Tao pretended to be embarrassed and replied: "Yes, as long as we can't lose money, I hope Colonel Yuri will report your needs as soon as possible so that I can arrange production and send the things as soon as possible."

After returning to Fengtian, Zheng Tao reported the result of the Russians' profits to Yang Xingguo. Although Yang Xingguo looked angry and scolded the Russians for being greedy, he was as happy as Zheng Tao at that time.

Although 2.5% of the profits account for half of all their profits, the remaining half of the profits are enough for the Liaodong Army to make a large amount of money.

"Minister Zheng, from now on, all the processing plants directly under the government will be under your control. After going down, I will say hello to you Minister Yan." Yang Xingguo, who looked satisfied, decisively ordered to make Yan Bing relaxed.

Zheng Tao's eyes lit up and he replied excitedly: "Commander thanks for his trust, and I, Zheng Tao, promise not to let down the commander's high expectations."

Yang Xingguo nodded and continued: "Well, after returning, expand the production scale of oil pressing plants, wineries, and canning plants as soon as possible."

"I won't say much about the oil press. The autumn harvest is coming. This year, the soybeans produced in the three northeastern provinces will definitely be much more than before. My idea is to squeeze all the soybeans into soybean oil and then sell them, so that you can earn more money."

"Canned food and soybean wine can now meet the needs of the Russian Far East Military Region. When these two things are spread to other military regions and domestic countries, the demand will definitely increase several times. Anyway, canned food and soybean wine are all released, so you can expand the production scale from now on and stock up on all those that cannot be sold."

At this time, good news came from Zhou Zhongju that the Mauser rifle produced by the arsenal working overtime has been replaced with nearly three main divisions.

Nearly 30,000 rifles that were eliminated were all sold in just one month.

As for the money sold for rifles, Zhou Zhongju threw it to the rifle factory before it was heated up and continued to produce rifles.

In a blink of an eye, it has been four or five months since Yang Xingguo took office as the governor of the three northeastern provinces.

During this period, the imperial guards in the two towns of the imperial court were directly expanded into five towns, and a town's personal army was specially formed to equip the most exquisite weapons bought by the imperial court.

Because the spies placed in the imperial guards of Yuan Shikai were caught by the court, and most of them surrendered to the court. In addition, the imperial guards were all drawn from the Manchu Eight Banners and the Han Eight Banners to form elites who were loyal to the court, a total of 60,000 elites were loyal to the court.

Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army had gained a lot of money from immigrants, and all the taxes in Anhui, Henan and Shandong provinces were detained by the Beiyang Army to expand the army.

The Beiyang Army not only restored the organization of the Nine Town Army, but also formed six mixed associations and two heavy artillery associations.

Although this expansion of the army suddenly emptied Yuan Shikai's family's fortune, Yuan Shikai was actually very happy.

The nine town army stationed the three provinces respectively, plus six mixed associations to help defend the defense. As long as the nine town army completes the training and the time is right, the nine town army that is deployed on the borders of the three provinces will be able to expand to the surrounding area immediately.

In this way, the territory occupied by the Beiyang Army can at least change from the current three provinces to six provinces. More territory means more income sources, and having money means that you can expand more troops and then conquer more territory.

Yuan Shikai, who knew this very well, swept away the decadence he had a few months ago and was full of confidence in his future again.

Under this situation, several officials from the southern border also seemed to smell the smell of war. The court, like the Beiyang Army, began to expand its army on a large scale, allowing itself to gain more foothold in the future troubled times.

The large number of water-singling rifles eliminated by the Liaodong Army were sold so quickly because these officials in the border areas expanded their troops, and replaced them with a large amount of silver that the Liaodong Army urgently needed.

The completely opposite to the inner gate is the Liaodong Army, which has already controlled the entire three northeastern provinces.

With all four main forces reorganized, Yang Xingguo directly took out a large amount of ammunition for everyone to train, run in with each other, and improve his combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

Not only that, Yang Xingguo also drew a lot of money to Huang Xing, allowing Huang Xing to supervise the restoration of production in all counties and cities and reduce the trauma caused by the war to the three northeastern provinces.

At this moment, the three northeastern provinces ushered in the autumn harvest that everyone in the Liaodong Army paid great attention to.

In the three northeastern provinces, the one that Yang Xingguo paid the most attention to was Liaodong.

After half a month, Yang Xingguo finally received a summary result of Huang Xing's happy and exciting people.

In Liaodong, which was first developed by the Liaodong Army, the average grain production of grain reached an astonishing two and a half pounds. According to the rule that the Jiangdong Army's tax revenue ratio and no more than 40 kilograms of grain, a mu of land is taxed for 40 kilograms of grain.

A total of nearly 20 million acres of land were planted in the entire Liaodong, which means that the three northeastern provinces alone can receive taxes of 8 million dan of grain.

If they were exchanged for silver, it would be nearly 20 million taels of silver.
Chapter completed!