Chapter 129 Resentment
In Baoding City, Yuan Shikai put down Zhao Dongyun's letter and said, "It seems that Dongyun has worked hard in Jinzhou. He not only trained the third town, but also made a mixed association. If all of you and Dongyun had been dedicated to working for the country, it can't be said that my four towns in Beiyang have already become six towns or even eight towns!"
Yuan Shikai seemed to have no other look when he said this, but he seemed to praise Zhao Dongyun on the surface, but several other people present heard Yuan Shikai's dissatisfaction.
This dissatisfaction is not that Yuan Shikai is dissatisfied with Zhao Dongyun's training of a Jinzhou patrol battalion, but that he is dissatisfied with the slow training speed of several other Beiyang bosses.
Since the Beiyang Four Town Plan was proposed last year, Beiyang's main focus on the expansion of the third town and the editing of the fourth town in 1903 and the beginning of 1904. However, half a year later, Zhao Dongyun's third town has already been fully compiled, and a Jinzhou patrol battalion has been made. .
Zhao Dongyun used the facts to once again prove to Yuan Shikai his unparalleled military training ability. You know, the Jinzhou patrol camp did not cost Yuan Shikai a dime. The funds mainly came from the previous Zhili old army and Fengtian's assistance expenses.
As a comparison, the training speed of the other three towns in Beiyang is a little slow. For example, the first town, as the pillar of military expansion, has not been fully staffed for many years. If it is because the first town has been transferred too many people by each town for a long time, then the second town and the second town Yuan Shikai was a little dissatisfied with the slow editing speed of the four towns. Although the second town has airs, there is still a lack of some soldiers. As for the fourth town, half a year has passed, there are still two infantry battalions and two cavalry battalions.
You should know that they also have sufficient funds, but the speed of Chengjun is never as fast as Zhao Dongyun's third town, which naturally aroused Yuan Shikai's dissatisfaction.
In addition to the four towns in Beiyang, Yuan Shikai is also quite dissatisfied with the changes of the three armies of the Wuwei Right Army, the vanguard of the Wuwei Right Army and the Self-improvement Army. The adaptation plan of the above three armies began at the end of last year. After the military expenditure on the Beiyang side was slightly generous at the beginning of this year, Yuan Shikai was the adaptation of the three armies. The work is officially put on the agenda.
But the progress made Yuan Shikai a little disappointed. Three or four months have passed, and he hasn't even set up a shelf, and it's not even easy for Yuan Shikai to ask for funds.
The good and bad of many things are actually compared. Without Zhao Dongyun's military speed of the third town and the example of Jinzhou patrol battalion, Yuan Shikai may be satisfied with the training of other teams. However, after this contrast, Yuan Shikai began to feel that I have been procrastinating for the next few months.
Wang Shizhen and others at the bottom naturally heard Yuan Shikai's dissatisfaction!
After Yuan Shikai secretly said these words of dissatisfaction, he did not continue to say anything against him, because he also knew that there was only one military trainer like Zhao Dongyun, and he could not use everyone as Zhao Dongyun.
After all, Zhao Dongyun's ability to practice the army was already reflected in the year of Xinchou. In the subsequent process of reorganizing the old army and training the new army, it has been quite eye-catching. In recent years, Zhao Dongyun's ability to practice the third town and Jinzhou patrol battalion can be said to rely on the ability to reorganize the old army.
In recent years, Yuan Shikai has asked Zhao Dongyun to reorganize a lot of old armies. In detail, there are Yuanzi battalions, Suyi's own army, Baoyang army training, Yongping training army, Jinzhou training army. The above are still large-scale old armies of more than 1,000 people. As for the fragmentary reorganization one after another More.
Zhao Dongyun has eliminated at least 30,000 old troops in the name of reorganization. Otherwise, how did Zhao Dongyun's third town and Jinzhou patrol camp come from? It doesn't depend on the funds of these old armies!
Now in China, Yuan Shikai can naturally boast about cutting and practicing new skills. In the Beiyang system, the ability to reorganize the old army is naturally led by Zhao Dongyun and continues to narrow down to the scope of the third town. In fact, it was done by Chen Guangyuan alone...
To be honest, in fact, Chen Guangyuan single-handedly eliminated the old army of Zhili...
After expressing his dissatisfaction, Yuan Shikai continued to say, "Now that although Dongyun has made a Jinzhou patrol camp by practicing new methods, you have also read his letter. A mixed association of more than 5,000 people needs a lot every month. Naturally, the small place in Jinzhou can't afford it. Look at this How to solve the funds?
Yuan Shikai's words show that he agrees and supports Zhao Dongyun's move to expand his army, especially this kind of thing of making a new army by relying on his own search below is more supportive. If every boss in the Beiyang system makes a mixed association like Zhao Dongyun, his own The Beiyang New Army has long been expanded as six towns and even eight towns and ten towns in Beiyang.
In fact, from Yuan Shikai's point of view, Zhao Dongyun's editing and training of Jinzhou patrol battalion has always been his concern and support. Last autumn, he sent a part of the old Zhili army to Jinzhou, and then discussed with Zeng Qi to get a Jinzhou patrol battalion number and appointed Zhao Dongyun as the general office.
Therefore, in Zhao Dongyun's view, the Jinzhou patrol camp may be his own private army, but in fact, in Yuan Shikai's view, this Jinzhou patrol camp is no different from the third town and the fourth town. They are all his troops under Yuan.
So later, he supported the allocation of more than ten artillery that replaced the third town to the Jinzhou patrol camp. With these more than ten artillery cannons, he laid the foundation for expansion into a mixed association.
After listening to Yuan Shikai's words, Duan Qirui first said, "This Jinzhou patrol camp is responsible for the defense of Liaoxi. Naturally, Fengtian has to pay part of the cost. You can't let us go directly!"
Duan Qirui's words actually have one meaning: I don't care what you Zhao Dongyun likes to do outside, but it is absolutely impossible to make money from Baoding.
The money in the Beiyang system is not for anyone, but to support the Beiyang armies. If Zhao Dongyun takes more, it means that other towns will be less.
At this time, Wang Shizhen also said, "We are also short of funds now, and we don't even have the ordnance money needed to adapt the three armies!"
Although the adaptation of Beiyang's Wuwei Right Army, the Pioneers of Wuwei Right Army and the Self-improvement Army has not been completed, the interior of Beiyang is scheduled to be adapted into the fifth and sixth town, and Yuan Shikai has already told Wang Shizhen that the sixth town in these two towns is ready to be given to him.
So although he has not yet become the position of control in the future, Wang Shizhen still has to fight for the interests of the sixth town in the future. Among other things, at least you have to leave me for the purchase of artillery and guns!
Wang Yingkai also shouted: "The artillery in my first town has been lagging behind for a long time. If you have money, you should replace it with a new barrel retreat gun as soon as possible!"
This is purely a gag. Even if the performance of the artillery in his first town is older, it does not mean that it can be replaced. At least there is no hope in the next two or three years, but if you don't say anything at this meeting to discuss military spending, people will still think that Wang Yingkai agrees to give Zhao Dongyun money!
Yuan Shikai listened to the words of his subordinates and naturally expected this reaction. In fact, he did not intend to give Zhao Dongyun any more money.
At this time, Duan Qirui said again, "Now there is still a shortage of 50,000 taels a month in the Jinzhou patrol camp, and there is no need to buy new guns and artillery. I think it is enough for Fengtian to add 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a month, and then ask the court and household department to pull out another 10,000 to 20,000 yuan."
What he said is simple, let Fengtiansheng pay again? Let's not talk about whether Fengtian has money or not. Even if you have money, you won't give it again. You should know that Fengtian Province needs to pay about 40,000 taels of silver every month for the third town and Jinzhou patrol camp. If you increase it, you must have a problem.
And Zengqi has been thinking of reorganising the Fengtian patrol camp into Fengtian's standing army in the past six months. Now if Beiyang wants to leave him to get the Jinzhou patrol camp and let him pay, he will definitely not want to!
As for the Imperial Household Department? They are rich!
Although the central regime at the end of the Qing Dynasty had very weak control over the local government and was far less binding on local officials than in the late Ming Dynasty, one thing was that the court was too short of money. Especially after the reform of the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty, the income was more and more than every year, and Gengzi's annual compensation of hundreds of millions of taels of silver. I gritted my teeth and gave it.
So don't think that this doomsday dynasty has been very hard. In fact, many political, military, educational, economic and other reforms at the end of the Qing Dynasty were quite successful. The household department of the imperial court can also spend tens of millions of military expenses every year, which not only provides for the new Beiyang army, but also intends to invest heavily in rebuilding the navy.
The most important reason why it is finished is that its reform was so successful that it was finally killed by the three words 'people', freedom and nation'. Therefore, the Manchu Dynasty was the most strange and funny dynasty. I killed myself. I guess I don't know why when I died...
However, the Ministry of Household will not give it casually if it has money. It is also because the central government's control over the local government is too weak, so it is absolutely impossible for the court to allocate funds for local military training every day. Their money is generally spent on the Beiyang New Army and other representative central imperial army, and it is absolutely impossible to give money to the following. Other provinces train the new army.
Whether it is Fengtian or Hubei, you don't want to get a dime of military money from the court. If you want to train the new army, you can only search for it by your own provinces!
As for Zhili and the Beiyang New Army, although later generations regard them as private local armies, in fact, in this era, the Beiyang New Army plays the role of the Central Army of the Imperial Court and the National Defense Force, which is fundamentally different from the new army of other provinces.
So the court will give money to Yuan Shikai to train the Beiyang New Army, but it does not mean that the court will give money to Fengtian to train the Jinzhou patrol camp!
If the court doesn't give money, Zhili doesn't have money to give, and Fengtian refuses to give it and doesn't have money!
At the end, Zhao Dongyun looked at the court's approval: "The Jinzhou patrol battalion has trained a new army as a mixed association. I am very relieved. I hope this member will continue to work hard and raise his own needs."
I almost wanted to scold my mother. I have practiced a mixed association without taking money. How can you even pay the follow-up maintenance fee? Shit, do you want me to get nearly 100,000 yuan a month?