Chapter 83 Expanded Supplementary Standards

For Zhao Dongyun, in July 1903, the whole was calm. After arriving in Jinzhou, while staring at the situation between Japan and Russia, he also stepped up the training of the third mixed association and building fortifications.

However, outside this slightly calm Jinzhou, the situation in the whole northeast and even the whole Far East has become more and more tense, because the Qing, Russia, Japan, Britain and the United States and other countries are frequent confrontations in the northeast, and the core of the storm is naturally China, Japan and Russia.

Russia has been sending more troops to the northeast since the summer of 1903, and Japan has begun to carry out large-scale preparations, and China has also been forced to take corresponding military mobilizations to deal with it.

It's just China, but in fact, it's the North Sea, just like the First Sino-Japanese War. Now if a war breaks out with Japan and Russia in the Northeast, it will also be a war of the Beiyang family. It has nothing to do with most of China's southern provinces, and even has nothing to do with Cixi Guangxu. Victory or even China It's okay to stand, it's all about Beiyang.

This may be too much, but in fact it is!

Otherwise, in such a large Chinese army of hundreds of thousands of various types, why is only a third mixed formation in Beiyang sent to the northeast? Why is everyone shouting to recover the Northeast, but no one is willing to pay even one or two pieces of silver to prepare for the expansion of the army? To put it bluntly, they feel that it's none of their business. It's okay to brag in the back. It's impossible for them to send troops or support military spending.

Zhang Zhidong, Cen Chunxuan and others all shouted to march into the northeast, but one of them was in Hubei and the other was far away in Guangdong. Not to mention sending their new troops to the northeast (in fact, they don't have many new troops in their hands), they were not even willing to take out a piece of silver to support the Beiyang New Army in garrison in Liaodong.

Zhao Dongyun's third mixed association was stationed in Jinzhou. In fact, the cost was not small. The cost of pulling out, building barracks, building fortifications, purchasing ordnance for hoarding. Hundreds of thousands of silver had been spent before and after, part of which was obtained by Yuan Shikai from the Qing court household department, and the rest was Beiyang's own. Zhang Zhidong and Cen Chunxuan will not kindly pull out hundreds of thousands of silver for Zhao Dongyun.

Therefore, when the situation in Northeast China was tense in 1903, even if the whole China was turbulent, just like the angry youth 50 cents of future generations, most of them were just saying and did not do it. It was loud for them to shout, but if they really do something, most of them would shout: "If others don't do it, they have to Shall we do it?"

So Hitler's words are still very right: those who dare to sacrifice for the country and the nation will always be a minority.

It was Beiyang that really responded to the tense situation in Northeast China. The dispatch of Zhao Dongyun to Jinzhou was only one of them. Later, Yuan Shikai continued to expand his army on a large scale to prevent the deterioration of the situation in Northeast China.

Well, this sounds too magnificent, but in fact, this is also bullshit! The fundamental purpose of Yuan Shikai's expansion is to increase his military strength to control more power. As for dealing with the situation in the northeast, it is just an excuse. Without the tension in the situation in Northeast China, how can Yuan Shikai take out enough money from the Qing court to expand the army? Without this money, how can his Beiyang army be expanded? To the six towns of Beiyang in later generations.

However, these real high-level things have nothing to do with Zhao Dongyun. Although he is already one of the senior officials in Beiyang, he has not reached the point that can affect the domestic political situation and even the situation in the Far East. Now what Zhao Dongyun can do is to firmly grasp the third mixed association in his hands. , and then take three steps to continue to strengthen yourself in the future Russo-Japanese War.

In Zhao Dongyun's heart and even in the hearts of many officers of the Third Mixed Association, the best way to continue to grow is to turn the Third Mixed Association into a third town. However, this is simple, but in fact it is very difficult to do.

The most important thing is the problem of money!

Yuan Shikai's money is limited. Before the Qing court pulled out large-scale military spending, it was impossible for him to support the expansion of the two towns at the same time. This is like in the first half of the year, Beiyang had long wanted to compile and practice the Fourth Association, but because of Zhao Dongyun's third association at that time, it led to the editing plan of the Fourth Association. Procrastinate again and again.

It was not until the preliminary formation of Zhao Dongyun's Third Association in May before officially started the preparation of the Fourth Association. Later, the Beiyang Standing Army established two towns and one association, and the main funds from Beiyang were also invested in the preparation of the second town. The Third Mixed Association, which had been trained into an army, only maintained the investment in maintaining funds. It is impossible to invest millions of taels of silver to expand the third mixed association into a town in a short period of time.

So it is difficult for the third mixed association to become the third town!

However, this is considered from the perspective of the whole Beiyang New Army. For Zhao Dongyun, if he does not give him the funds for formal establishment and expansion of the army, he will have to find a way by himself.

If you want to expand your army, you don't have to have formal staffing and court funds. You can also use other methods, such as reorganizing those old troops, collecting bandits, etc. There are many ways.

At this time, Zhao Dongyun once again felt that the independent recruitment, training, and even self-financing of various troops in the Beiyang system are of many benefits for any warlord, because this means that even if the superiors do not give the establishment and funds, Zhao Dongyun can find a way to expand his army by himself.

"The more than 2,000 old troops in the Jinzhou patrol battalion have been reorganized, and about half have been eliminated. The remaining 1,000 people are currently being trained by the Education Department!" Lin Yongquan stood in Zhao Dongyun's office and reported to Zhao Dongyun on the reorganization of the old army.

Jinzhou patrol battalion is also a new matter. When Zhao Dongyun arrived in Jinzhou in June, he complained to Yuan Shikai for reinforcements, but Yuan Shikai sent reinforcements to him, but it doesn't make sense to give any reinforcements. In the end, he had to gather more than 1,000 Zhili training troops from Yongping, Tongzhou and other places. Go to Jinzhou.

At the same time, after learning that Zhao Dongyun led troops to Jinzhou and intend to improve the combat effectiveness of the local defense forces when he rectified the old army, General Shengjing combined with Yuan Shikai to combine the local Jinzhou defense army and more than 1,000 Zhili training troops in Jinzhou into the Jinzhou patrol camp to assist Served as Jinzhou Defense with the Third Mixed Association.

and instructed Zhao Dongyun, the leader and alternate governor of the Third Mixed Association, to carry out the training.

Although this Jinzhou patrol camp has more than 2,000 people, its actual combat effectiveness is not as good as that of bandits. For example, the Mabu guerrillas of Fengtian Province, which was established by Jinzhou patrol camp, is the bandit Zhang Zuolin, who was incorporated by Zengqi. Although there are only 500 people, at least they are also strong soldiers and strong, although However, it is not as good as the regular army, but it is very good to fight other bandits.

However, Zhao Dongyun did not expect this Jinzhou patrol battalion to have any combat effectiveness. What he wants is only a name and establishment. After all, with the establishment of Jinzhou patrol battalion, the court will pay military expenses.

This is not the period of warlord melee. Zhao Dongyun can't directly collect taxes locally to support the army. Now, whether it is the expansion of the army or the army, most of them need to be paid by the court and Beiyang. Now, Fengtian has to be added.

The sources of military expenditure required by Zhao Dongyun's army are relatively diverse, half of which comes from Zhili Province, partly from the Ministry of Household of the Qing Dynasty, and partly from the General's Mansion of Shengjing. Of course, this is only a general source, and there are many subdivided under these three items, such as how much is intercepted from a customs every year, and the appropriation of the original Suyi's own army, Yuanzi camp and other messy funds every year.

Of course, Zhao Dongyun doesn't have to worry about these details. Anyway, Yuan Shikai will send him all the piecemeal money every month. The part of Fengtian is because part of the defense expenses after the Third Mixed Cooperation enters Jinzhou and the cost of the Jinzhou patrol camp are also borne by Jinzhou and Fengtian.

Regarding the funding of the Beiyang New Army, you can write a master's thesis in detail, which is omitted here.

Zhao Dongyun's Third Mixed Association has sufficient sources of funds, but if he wants to expand his army, he must find another source of funds, and now this Jinzhou patrol camp has given him this name.

Since Yuan Shikai and Zeng Qi sent this Jinzhou patrol camp as reinforcements and asked him to train the army, he naturally pointed the butcher knife at this Jinzhou patrol camp.

Since June, Chen Guangyuan, the top general of the old army, has been sent to directly lay off thousands of people in the name of consolidation, and the remaining young men who are barely passable are also stuffed into the new barracks of the education department.

In this way, this Jinzhou patrol battalion, which exists in the regular army of the Qing Dynasty, only exists on paper, and there is no soldier left!

"Now the Jinzhou patrol camp can move about 15,000 silver per month, plus the auxiliary defense fee allocated by Fengtian is 5,000 taels per month. Although it is less, it can barely allow us to practice a bid by squeezing and moving from other aspects." Lin Yongquan handed over a form that said the expenses needed to train an infantry standard, as well as the funding sources of the current Third Mixed Association.

"We can afford the monthly cost of maintaining this standard, but how to solve the cost of buying ordnance, building barracks, sett down and other expenses?" Zhao Dongyun looked at it and frowned and asked.

"There is no good way in this regard. We can only squeeze in first. There are still a lot of expulsion fees, ammunition replenishment fees and barracks construction fees left in the front, and some of them are used to buy ordnance and settle down!" Lin Yongquan said so.

After hearing this, Zhao Dongyun shook his head: "That money can't be moved, but that's the family background of our third mixed association. We need to keep it for later use! You have to find another way to buy ordnance, settle down and other expenses! If it's really not good and it doesn't take a moment to make it all up, you can practice with an old gun first! Buy it slowly every month from now on!"