Chapter 229 Compromise and Talent

Zhao Dongyun did not intervene too deeply in the financial struggle between the military and the State Council. Although the military's expansion plan has his acquiescence or even support, he cannot personally come down from the referee's seat as a player.

Of course, he will not let the military and the State Council completely break up and cause continuous disputes within the Soviet system, so although he did not come forward, someone still acted as a peacemaker in this civil and military battle.

In Xiong Xiling's mansion, such a person was welcomed today, Yuan Jinkai, the first secretary of the Secretariat of the envoy!

In the past few days, more people have come to see Xiong Xiling. Some have come to support him and persuade him to put the overall situation first. However, since this is a political game, Xiong Xiling naturally has to make a full set of resignation, so many times they refuse to see most people on the grounds of living idle and not seeing outsiders, only a few He only sees important people.

For example, this Yuan Jinkai!

Yuan Jinkai, a person from Liaoyang in Fengtian, was born in the former Qing Dynasty. After the reign of Gengzi, he organized local group training in Fengtian. After 1903, he devoted himself to Zhao Dongyun's account. Although his qualifications are not as profound as Yang Debiao, Lin Yongquan and others, he is also one of the senior staff under Zhao Dongyun's account. In 1904, he became the Jinzhou police. In 1905, he was transferred to the second-class secretary of the Secretariat, and in early 1906, he was promoted to the first-class secretary of the Secretariat.

"Yuan Shumi, it's not that I don't understand the overall situation, but that those people in the military department bully people too much, and they say that they will raise them within two months. If I approve it, the salaries of the government will not be paid next month!"

As mentioned above, the secretariat created by Zhao Dongyun is not only a secretarial body, but also an institution with voting power, and not only handles government affairs in the civil service system, but also military affairs. Generally speaking, what Zhao Dongyun wants to do, they need to do!

This led to the increasing weight of the power of the institution. In 1905, it was only an ordinary secretarial body, but it already had great administrative power at the beginning of 1906. When the State Council was established in 1907, the Finance Bureau, the Industry and Commerce Bureau and other institutions were transferred to the State Council, but the Secretariat was with the Inspectorate. When the advisory office directly under the jurisdiction of the envoy, the secretariat had part of the power of the military aircraft office of the former Qing Dynasty and the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty.

In the administrative system of the three eastern provinces at the beginning of 1907, the inspection of the three provinces was the highest, and the inspection offices were under the jurisdiction of the army headquarters of the three provinces, the government, the secretariat, the advisory office and the inspection office. Among them, the advisory office does not have actual administrative power, and there is no specific institution in it. It only gives some important industrial and commercial military and political figures who have not directly served in the military and political affairs two terms. For example, Zhao Chenbin, chairman of Fuyuan Machinery Factory, is the 'first-class consultant' in the advisory office, while Li Lingjian of the Li family in Jinzhou is 'Second-class consultant', in addition, there is Duan Zhigui, one of the former Beiyang dignitaries who has just come to join Zhao Dongyun. This person has been relatively unlucky recently. Before Yuan Shikai's death, he married Yizhen and other Manqing nobles in order to seek the position of governor of Heilongjiang. However, as soon as Yuan Shikai died, Wang Yingkai was born in response to those and the Manchu Qing nobles. Closely connected officials suppress it.

Duan Zhigui's relationship with Wang Yingkai is not very good. This time, he is naturally in the list of suppression, so like many Beiyang people, he has the idea of staying here. Wang Yingkai is not the only one in Beiyang, but also Zhao Dongyun in the east. No matter how bad it is, there are Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen in the south.

After arriving in Shenyang, Zhao Dongyun also got involved with him. As soon as he arrived, he arranged the residence and first hung up the name of 'first-class consultant' in the consultant's office, and then arranged it separately after integration.

Compared with the nameless of the consulting office, the secretariat is a solid authority, especially the twelve first-class secretaries in it. The daily work is not for Zhao Dongyun. Those are the work of second-class secretaries. The main responsibility of these first-class secretaries is to deal with almost massive military and political affairs, for many of the following The various reports submitted by the department will be read first, then reply opinions will be drawn up, and then forwarded to Zhao Dongyun for approval, and then these * will be transmitted by the secretariat to each department for specific implementation.

With Zhao Dongyun's desperate grasp of power and directly under the jurisdiction of many departments of the State Council and the headquarters, although he firmly controlled the military regime, without the secretariat, Zhao Dongyun would not be unable to handle so many official duties.

This is similar to a weakened cabinet. Although the secretaries inside still have the names of first-class secretaries and second-class secretaries, they seem to be just carrying bags, but in the eyes of outsiders, they are already central dignitaries, and even politely shout 'shu mi' to give face.

Of course, this name can only be shouted in private, and no one will say so in public.

To tell the truth, Xiong Xiling still slightly despised Yuan Jinkai, a little scholar. If it hadn't caught up with the good time when the Secretariat was directly under the inspection of the embassy, he would not have been able to climb the position of a pivotal for a hundred years, but he despised it in his heart. This superficial face still needs to be given, plus this is a private scene. he, so Xiling shouted generously and Yuan Shumi.

Although Yuan Jinkai's talent can't be compared with Xiong Xiling, Zhao E, Zhu Jiabao and others, he has been in the Soviet Union for many years, so although he saw Xiong Xiling's slight contempt for himself, he didn't care.

He came today not his own idea, but was hinted by Zhao Dongyun!

"Brother Bing, you also know that now that it is time for our eastern province to stride forward, are you willing to stay where you are?" Yuan Jinkai said while drinking tea, "I also visited General Meng and General Xu last night. Although their attitude was relatively resolute, they also said that if the Finance Bureau was willing to cooperate, they were also willing to compromise!"

Xiong Xiling looked up and said, "Oh, compromise? How much more do they need?"

Yuan Jinkai said, "They said that the expansion of the army was imperative, but since the finances were tight, they said that they could gradually do it, first train an infantry brigade, and then gradually expand it into a division!"

Xiong Xiling doesn't understand and is not interested in how to expand the army. He said directly, "How much money they want!"

"The first batch of one million in the first month, followed by an allocation of 200,000 yuan per month, so that the total amount is two million in half a year!"

Xiong Xiling heard that the allocation has been allocated in batches in the past six months, and the requested 4 million has also been halved to 200 million. He secretly said to himself that the military's turtles are still a little sincere, but he still said, "If two million is raised in half a year, my Finance Bureau will reluctantly pay it back. It can be raised, but the first batch of millions is still too many. The amount given in the first month cannot exceed 500,000 yuan, and the rest will be paid monthly!"

Xiling also explained: "In the first half of the year, our financial pressure is relatively large, and many of this year's taxes have not been collected. I'm afraid this money will not be slightly relaxed until the second half of the year!"

"I think several military generals should understand the painstaking efforts of their colleagues in the Finance Bureau!"

Under Zhao Dongyun's hint, Yuan Jinkai coordinated and finally suppressed the first civil and military battle. The military was forced to give up the plan to establish an infantry division in a short time, but accepted the plan of gradual expansion. Although the Finance Bureau is still financially tight, it does not need to take out millions at once. It won't let the Finance Bureau go bankrupt all of a sudden.

So two days later, Zhao Dongyun officially approved Xiong Xiling's resignation letter. Well, not allowed!

So Xiling pretended that it was not me who didn't fall in love with the rights, but the attitude that the country and the nation needed me, and ran back to the Finance Bureau to work.

However, after experiencing this incident, Zhao Dongyun's good impression of Xiong Xiling also slightly decreased. Although he rationally understood Xiong Xiling's behavior and estimated that he would also play the trick of resigning, he still felt unhappy emotionally, but he had to continue to use Xiong Xiling if he was unhappy.

At present, there are not many people he can use in the financial system. Although Zhao E, Zhou Ziqi and Zhu Jiabao have good abilities, they are regarded as foreign generals. You can let them develop local industry and commerce, but if you want them to play finance, their ability is still slightly lacking. As for Zhao Dongyun's command There are few other civil servants who can be regarded as foreign affairs. It is not easy to find a person to preside over the financial work.

In fact, there are not many people in contemporary China who can support the financial work of a country. Those old-fashioned bureaucrats in the pre-Qing Dynasty, including Zhao Erxun and Xu Shichang, who served as heads of the transfer department, are actually unqualified. Although they have many outstanding aspects of politics, in essence, they are not even foreign affairs officials. It is a traditional administrative bureaucrat.

If it weren't for national and national factors, Zhao Dongyun would rather hire a real financial expert directly from London or Wall Street to be the director of his financial bureau rather than let domestic bureaucrats take charge of the finance bureaus of the three eastern provinces.

In fact, among many people in China, only Zhou Xuexi and Tang Shaoyi are more qualified, but now Zhou Xuexi and Tang Shaoyi are both central officers. Now one is the head of the Cabinet Finance Department and the other is the head of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. Naturally, they will not come to Shenyang to serve Zhao Dongyun as the director of the Finance Bureau.

In this case, if Xiling puts off the burden, Zhao Dongyun really can't find the right person to manage the finances within a period of time. At most, he will let Zhao E or Zhou Ziqi or simply let Zhao Dongping go up. If these people go to manage the Finance Bureau, it is a typical duck on the shelves. Don't expect them to be able to get together. Xiong Xiling can still support it under the huge financial gap.