Chapter 33 Loan

The goal of building several machine gun battalions is not big, but it is not small. Although the cost of a machine gun battalion is not as good as an artillery battalion, it is not small. The salary of personnel alone is thousands of yuan per month, and the cost of purchasing machine guns, rifles, pistols and other ordnance is also tens of thousands of yuan. This is a new machine gun. In the case of the camp, the initial investment will be at least 30,000 taels, and then thousands of taels will be invested every month.

If you want to build three machine gun camps, including personnel, mules, horses, machine guns and many other expenses can't be started without 100,000 taels of silver.

However, since Yuan Shikai said this today, it means that he has already paid for this military expenditure. In other words, military expenditure is not a problem that Zhao Dongyun should consider, but Yuan Shikai should consider.

Yuan Shikai called him here today. Obviously, he didn't want to listen to him how much it cost, but to listen to something else.

Zhao Dongyun immediately said, "Now that the armies of the great powers are equipped with a large number of machine guns, it is naturally necessary for Beiyang to follow up in time!" After saying this as the tone, he continued: "According to the existing system of our army, the standing army still needs a battalion. Although the right town has not yet formed an army, it is not far away, so you can also practice a battalion first and directly integrate into the army when the right town's cavalry and marches become an army. The vanguard, the self-improvement army, and the right army of the military guard are strong, weak and few. If a battalion of machine gun teams are uniformly deployed, it is suspected to be wasteful.

The vanguard team is stationed in Shandong, and the distance is far away. During the war, it is slow to be assisted by Zhili. It can be equipped with a small battalion machine gun team. It does not need the number of four teams. It is enough to be equipped with two or three teams to build a small battalion.

Although the Wuwei Right Army has the name of an army, there were 3,000 troops stationed in the two palaces of Nanyuan Control Guard. Later, there was a battalion of troops transferred to Shunde to suppress anti-fat. Now it is another battalion to be stationed as a police stationed in Tianjin. The remaining force is less than 10,000, and it is different from the standing army. I'm afraid that it will need to be reorganized one by one in the future, so there is no need to be directly equipped with the equipment. Gun battalions, in case of war, another machine gun battalion can be transferred to cooperate with the battle.

The number of self-improvement troops is only 3,000, and the military system is also very different from that of Beiyang. It is still urgent for a while, but it is inconvenient to maintain it for a long time, so there is no need to be assigned to a machine gun camp!"

Zhao Dongyun's words have also been carefully considered. The standing army must have a town and a battalion, but as for the Wuwei Right Army, it is not necessary.

If he still serves in the Wuwei Right Army, he will definitely win a battalion of machine gun team for the Wuwei Right Army, but now he is no longer a member of the Wuwei Right Army, but a member of the Military and Political Department to supervise machine gun affairs, so he has to stand at the height of the whole Beiyang to view the problem.

The right army of Wuwei was in the limelight around the year of Gengzi, but today in 1902, in fact, the right army of Wuwei was no longer the right army of Gengzi. In the past two years, the right army of Wuwei was dismantled many times. First, more than 3,000 people were transferred to Beijing to welcome the return of the two palaces, and these more than 3,000 people were gone. Return, he was directly left to stay in the capital by Cixi.

Then he was transferred to the second battalion originally under Zhao Dongyun to go south to Shunde to suppress bandits, and now he is still in Shunde and has not returned to build. In addition, because the Eight-Nation Alliance said that the Chinese army could not be stationed in Tianjin, Yuan Shikai planned to reorganize a battalion of the Wuwei Right Army into a police force and dress up as a police stationed in Tianjin. It is impossible to let such a large Tianjin force. As for what foreigners will think, that's their problem. Anyway, Yuan Shikai said that they are The police are not soldiers, and foreigners have nothing to say.

In this way, in less than a year, the right-wing army of Wuwei has been transferred to more than 6,000 people. Although it has been recruiting personnel for more than a year, it has not been able to resume its establishment.

Because the core of the expansion of Beiyang since last year is on the standing army, and the Wuwei Right Army is mainly integrated or even transferred, and there will be a big expansion of the Wuwei Right Army.

In addition, in order to compile and train the standing army, Yuan Shikai transferred a large number of backbones from the Wuwei Right Army into the standing army, which also led to an extreme shortage of officers and greatly reduced the quality of the Wuwei Right Army.

Such a Wuwei right army is no longer the peak of last year, and it is foreseeable that Yuan Shikai will continue to dismantle the Wuwei right army to expand the standing army, that is to say, it will not be long before this Wuwei right army will become a historical term.

There is naturally no need for such a right-wing army to be equipped with a whole machine gun battalion.

In the case of the self-improvement army, the number of troops is originally small, and the establishment is relatively backward. In addition, more importantly, it used to be Zhang Zhidong's army, but now the whole Beiyang wants to dismember and annex this force, and it will be assigned to the machine gun force there!

After listening to Zhao Dongyun's words, Yuan Shikai frowned and said, "In this case, there are two big and small ones in total, three machine gun camps?"

Zhao Dongyun said, "There are three battalions directly assigned to each town, but there are still many other troops in Beiyang, and we also need more or less machine gun support in wartime. At the beginning of our Beiyang's layoff training, there must be more town associations that need machine gun teams in the future, so we can practice another battalion and be appropriately assigned to each army in the future."

"Four battalions, except for the original battalion, there are still three battalions!" Yuan Shikai looked at Zhao Dongyun again after saying: "If you come to practice, may you practice?"

This question is just nonsense. Does Zhao Dongyun dare to speak and practice at this time? Zhao Dongyun naturally made a serious statement: "The Ministry will do its best to deal with this machine gun matter, and will live up to the high expectations of the governor!"

Yuan Shikai has actually made a decision to run the machine gun camp for a long time. Today, he asked Zhao Dongyun to come here just to listen to his words.

Yuan Shikai nodded and immediately turned his head to Zhou Xuexi: "Xuexi, how much money can you free up?"

Zhou Xuexi came to the governor's mansion today to be the God of Wealth. After listening to Yuan Shikai's question, Zhou Xuexi didn't think about it and immediately said, "Just now, Governor Xian said that this battalion needs 35,000 taels to start, but these three battalions are 105,000 liang. If you want to take them all out in a short time, I'm afraid you won't be able to catch it. Next, I can allocate 40,000 taels first for recruitment and ordnance deposit. I will allocate 40,000 taels next month and give the remaining 25,000 taels in the third month. Do you think this is feasible?

Although Zhou Xuexi has a lot of money in his hand, this money is useful. The Beiyang family has a big business, but it is also expensive, and it is impossible to give Zhao Dongyun all machine guns. It takes three months to take out 105,000 taels in batches, which is already very kind to Zhou Xuexi.

Zhao Dongyun listened. Although he had many ideas, he would never say anything, because today he only said how many machine gun teams we need and how to train machine gun teams, but it's not his business to ask for money. That's Yuan Shikai's business.

Yuan Shikai nodded after listening and only said one word, "But!"

Then, he waved his hand to let Zhao Dongyun and Zhou Xuexi go down. He had to see other people. A group of people outside were waiting for Yuan Shikai to summon him. He was very busy and didn't have time to say more.

After Zhou Xuexi and Zhao Dongyun came out, Zhao Dongyun arched his hand to Zhou Xuexi: "Mr. Zhou has to help this machine gun matter!"

Zhou Xuexi laughed and said, "You're not polite. Although my money is tighter, I'm not short of your money!"

Zhou Xuexi had already talked to Yuan Shikai about the cost of preparing the machine gun team before Zhao Dongyun entered. In the face of what Yuan Shikai personally explained, Zhou Xuexi did not dare to neglect, so even if Zhao Dongyun did not compliment him, he would give Zhao Dongyun the money. Of course, all kinds of bad rules must be deducted.

Now I see that Zhao Dongyun seems to have a good attitude towards himself, and I remember that Yuan Shikai attaches great importance to Zhao Dongyun, a young man. It is estimated that this person will be able to get up in a few years, so he also has the idea of making friends. Maybe this friendship will be used in the future.

So I also plan to give money happily, don't push back as usual, and get enough benefits before paying.

After that, the two went all the way out. After saying a few words, Zhao Dongyun remembered that his Fuyuan yarn factory had been short of money to expand, and there was a god of wealth who opened a bank and could issue money?

Immediately said, "I heard that there is also a loan on the other side of Tianjin Official Bank?"

Zhou Xuexi was slightly stunned when he heard this. He didn't expect a soldier like Zhao Dongyun to talk about borrowing, and immediately subconsciously nodded: "There is a commercial loan!"

Zhao Dongyun said, "To be honest, there is a yarn factory at home, and the future is not bad. A few days ago, I heard from the people below that they wanted to expand the scale of loans. Today, I met adults, and I just remembered it!"

Zhou Xuexi was also a little curious when he heard it. He didn't expect that Zhao Dongyun would also run an industry. These days, there are still relatively few Chinese people playing industry. Most of the businessmen are still in the traditional industry. If they dare to play a new industry like a yarn factory, they need insight and courage.

Anyway, borrowing is not a big deal. As long as the yarn factory under Zhao Dongyun's name has good benefits and the ability to repay the loan, Zhou Xuexi naturally has no pressure on loans. Besides, even if the benefits are not good, there is another Zhao Dongyun. As the saying goes, a monk can't run away from the temple.

He is in charge of this Tianjin official silver account, but everyone knows that this is the money cabinet of Beiyang and the money bag of Beiyang's army expansion.

Who dares to borrow the money from Tianjin Official Bank and not pay it back, Yuan Shikai dares to copy anyone's home. Tens of thousands of Beiyang troops are not easy to mess with!

So Zhou Xuexi said cheerfully, "It's easy to say. I'll say hello to the people below, and then you can ask someone to do it!"

The two are also Beiyang military and political officials. Naturally, it is impossible for them to talk about the details of commercial loans in person. After the two casually say a few words to finalize the general direction, naturally the following people will run errands to do detailed things.

After leaving the governor's mansion, Zhao Dongyun sent Zhou Xuexi to leave in a sedan chair again, and then he went directly to the military affairs department. He also had to take office and visit Feng Guozhang, the head coach office.

Although his deputy assistant is different from the ordinary deputy, he is a specialist driver's gunman. To some extent, it has little to do with the coaching department of the Military and Political Department, but more like a temporary position.

However, even if he is suspended from his post, Feng Guozhang is still his boss, so he has to do his superficial courtesy.

However, Feng Guozhang obviously knew the inside story. After meeting Zhao Dongyun, he did not put on the airs of being a boss. Instead, he said very kindly, "Dongyun, you are back. I have wanted to have another drink with you for a long time. Today, I happened to set up a table for you in the evening, which happened to pick you!"

In the face of such an enthusiastic Feng Guozhang, Zhao Dongyun is really hard to say anything else besides laughing twice. However, looking at such a passionate Feng Guozhang, Zhao Dongyun always feels that something is wrong!