Chapter 85 Zhenyilou Night Talk

After Zhao Dongping sent Zhang Zuolin away, he took another look at the 500 taels of silver note in his hand, with a look of doubt on his face: "This Zhang Zuolin is generous, 500 taels as soon as he takes action!"

muttering to himself, he immediately re-entered the inner courtyard. Before long, he stood in front of Zhao Dongyun, and the 500 taels of silver had been placed on Zhao Dongyun's table.

Although Zhao Dongping is young, he usually does not mind receiving some of the benefits from others. For example, some people usually ask him to introduce him in order to meet Zhao Dongyun. For example, some people want to ask for an official promotion and ask Zhao Dongping to come to the door. In this case, Zhao Dongping depends on the situation. If it is for a meeting, etc. He is collecting money to do things, but most of them refuse to ask for promotion. Because the decisions related to personnel have always been arbitrary by Zhao Dongyun, Zhao Dongping can't affect Zhao Dongyun's decisions.

Now Zhang Zuolin is so generous that he has even shot 500 taels of silver without saying anything. If there is nothing big in it, Zhao Dongping will not believe it, so he does not hesitate to turn around and report to Zhao Dongyun. The focus of the report is not on the 500 taels of silver, but Zhang Zuolin. There are pictures!

Zhao Dongyun looked at the silver ticket of 500 taels and thought thoughtfully: "Since you come to the door, go and see him to see what's going on!"

I have to say that Zhang Zuolin's 500 taels of silver aroused Zhao Dongyun's curiosity!

After getting his cousin's permission, Zhao Dongping entered Jinzhou City that night. Even if Jinzhou City is not a big city in later generations, it is naturally not very big today in 1903. Not long after entering the city, he arrived at the Zhenyi Building in Zhang Zuolin's mouth.

Jianyi Building, you will know that it is the place of wind and moon when you hear this name, but although the name sounds good, it is a little plain inside. When Zhao Dongping was in Baoding, he often followed Zhao Dongyun to Chongyu Building. This is more eye-opening, and his vision naturally rises, but Jinzhou is a small place It is neither a commercial center nor a political center, so it is naturally impossible to expect it to have such high-style places.

However, people, especially military and political officials, don't like to talk about things in restaurants, but like to laugh and talk about the world while holding beautiful women in the place of the wind and the moon. This is the case in China. * next door is also like a bird. Military and political dignitaries, whether revolutionaries or senior officials, hope to drill into the brothels, and the Japanese book opposite What's more, basically everything must be accompanied by a geisha, and if the officers after the Meiji Restoration do not prostitute, it is simply unreasonable and will be rejected by most officers.

This is a fine Confucian tradition that likes to talk about military affairs in places of wind and moon, regardless of national boundaries and ethnicity.

The customs of the world are like this, and Zhao Dongyun and others are naturally no exception. In Baoding, he often entertained his colleagues in Chongyulou, otherwise he would not have become the boss in the hearts of a group of young and strong officers in Beiyang.

Zhao Dongping followed Zhao Dongyun to Chongyu Building a lot. At present, when he saw the style of this Zhenyi Building, he was naturally not very happy. He thought to himself that this Lin was indeed a rough man, and he couldn't even find a place to talk about things.

Although Jinzhou does not have such a noble place as Chongyulou, there are also several good courtyards. As the saying goes, wealth is not enough, but it is more than beautiful. Zhao Dongping usually goes to those places for drinking. Obviously, Zhang Zuolin can't find those small courtyards.

Zhang Zuolin naturally found that Zhao Dongping's face had been a little ugly since he entered the door, but he couldn't figure out what had annoyed him for a moment, so he could only sit down with a smiling face.

The age difference between the two is not too big. Zhang Zuolin, born in 1875, is only 28 years old this year, and although Zhao Dongping is only 19 years younger, Zhao Dongping is also learning from his cousin Zhao Dongyun. He usually wears a mature dress and is tall and tall. He looks about 234 years old.

However, the status of the two is quite different. Zhang Zuolin came from a poor family. Although he has been in a private school for several months, he is illiterate in many people's minds. Although there are heroes who don't ask about his origin, the key is that Zhang Zuolin is not a hero. He is just a bandit who has been touched, with only hundreds of his men. It's just a bandit. Although it has the title of management belt, it is not as important as any team officer of the Beiyang system in Zhao Dongping's heart.

Although Zhao Dongping was not from a noble family, he was at least a son of a gentry. Although he was not admitted to Xiucai, at least he had passed the county examination, took the government examination, and was also familiar with foreign affairs. He not only spoke very fluently in French, but also studied by himself in order to deal with Japanese and German foreign banks. Of course, I'm not proficient in German and Japanese, so I can only say a few words casually. Zhao Dongping is also the head of the Ordnance Section of the Third Mixed Association, in charge of the weapons and equipment affairs of the Third Mixed Association. In the Third Mixed Association, it is more important than the ordinary management belt.

Of course, these are not important. The important thing is that Zhang Zuolin obviously has something to ask for him today!

So although Zhao Dongping was a guest and was young, he sat in the first place as soon as he came in, while Zhang Zuolin sat opposite.

In a short time, four Gigabytes with heavy makeup came in. Although these women were a little vulgar in Zhao Dongping's view, the two women spoke very cleverly and provoked the atmosphere in the room for a while. In this case, Zhao Dongping was naturally relieved that he had in his heart. Man, drank wine with Zhang Zuolin.

It's just that after drinking more than half of the wine, the two of them talked about their brothers, but they still didn't say anything serious. Zhang Zuolin didn't say anything, and Zhao Dongping naturally didn't care. Wait, this Zuolin always wanted to say, otherwise his 500 taels of silver would be wasted.

Sure enough, after drinking several cups, Zhang Zuolin said leisurely, "I'm dissatisfied with Brother Zhao, Zhang Zuolin, I have no other ability, but there are hundreds of brothers who look up to it, so that I can eat a royal grain!"

It's just that this guy who eats imperial food as an officer and doesn't take advantage of it!"

Looking at Zhang Zuolin's words, Zhao Dongping vaguely felt that Zhang Zuolin was about to start talking about business. Did he mean that he wanted to buy ordnance?

This possibility is not small. It has been more than two months since the Third Mixed Association came to Jinzhou in June. After coming to Jinzhou, it naturally sent a large number of reconnaissance cavalry to the surrounding area for reconnaissance. On the one hand, it is to draw military maps. It is said that there are some complaints here. Before coming to Jinzhou, the Liaodong map in Zhao Dongyun's hands was still Xianfeng. It was drawn during the year, and it belongs to the kind of 'handhand'. Well, it is a few curved lines representing the passage, and then there are several beautifully depicted cities on the map. Nima alone account for more than half of the map, the two cities of Jinzhou and Fengtian alone.

If anyone can see the terrain of Liaodong from this map, Zhao Dongyun can only say: Brother, you are awesome!

Later, Zhao Dongyun had to send people to Tianjin and even Shanghai * foreigners, especially the civilian maps published by Japan himself, which led to a large number of maps in Zhao Dongyun's hands, which were actually civilian maps drawn by foreigners. However, these civilians can only see roughly, and the detailed terrain cannot be seen, so the first thing Zhao Dongyun did after he arrived in Jinzhou was to send investigators to draw detailed military maps around Jinzhou. This part of the work is mainly done by cavalry to cooperate with the surveying and mapping officers of the association headquarters, and further away from Fengtian, Xinmin, Yingkou and other places. It is to send secret personnel for surveying and mapping.

When collecting topographic data, a large amount of other information was naturally collected in the three eastern provinces, especially the northeast bandits.

Everyone knows that there are many bandits in Northeast China, and there is no need to talk about the origin of Northeast bandits during the Xianfeng period to the destruction of later generations of bandits. As long as you know that in 1903, there are probably a few northeast bandits. First of all, Feng Delin (also known as Feng Linge), who was around the year of Gengzi. It's more powerful. When his bandits are at most, there are several thousand people, and there are at least five or six hundred ordinary backbones. This person not only harms the people in the Liaohe River Basin, but also likes to be a horse for Japan himself. If he has nothing to do, he pick up the Russian railways, so he was arrested by the Russians some time ago, but this year he was arrested by Japan again. I, Wang Xiaobi, bought China and rescued it. Now I have returned to the old territory to gather the old department, and soon pulled up hundreds of bandits. In the future, I will be very active in the Russo-Japanese War. Well, there is also a Jin Wanfu, and there are hundreds of people under him, but this person is closely related to Feng Delin, which can be regarded as Feng. The branches of Delin's forces are not listed separately.

Then there is Du Lisan. Because he has made achievements in the fight against Russia, he has a good reputation in later generations, but the burning, killing and looting is the number one among the bandits in Northeast China. He is the only one who is called the 'Liaoxi bandit'. He has many subordinates and his strength is not weaker than Feng Delin, but this person is too old-fashioned. Thinking and changeable, even Feng Delin accepted to be a man with his tail between his legs after the Russo-Japanese War, but you are still looking for death, so he was killed by Zhang Zuolin and the imperial army in 1907.

And Zhang Zuolin. Originally, his troops were not many, but they developed rapidly after being recruited. His Fengtian Patrol Camp Mabu guerrillas have grown to more than 500. This person is relatively smart. On the one hand, he continues to recruit weak bandits. On the one hand, he is giving them to the court, and on the other hand, he is also expanding his strength. However, although this person is in the name of an officer and army, he still acts as a bandit. In addition to collecting local security fees, he also set up a private checkpoint to collect the purchase fee for transit merchant ships, otherwise he would not be called an 'official bandit'.

The strength of the bandits to which the above three belong is the largest bandit force in Northeast during the period from Gengzi to the Russo-Japanese War, and their means of survival are also relatively formal. On the whole, they are separated from the lowest-level robbery and kidnapping (sometimes will definitely be), but developed into a civilian armed forces with a base area, using An in the base area. Premiums and other names are taxed (this number is generally several times the national tax), and at the same time, they collect to buy road fees from passing business ships and use these funds to recruit horses and buy ordnance.

If they expand their scale many times, they will be completely independent kingdoms, which are actually no different from the Soviet Union in later generations.