Chapter 150 Forming a shogunate

Fengtian, which was left by Zengqi, is actually a mess. Due to the influence of the Russo-Japanese War, the area east of the Liao River in Fengtian was affected by the war. Many refugees took refuge in the west of the Liao River to escape the war.

The war not only created a large number of refugees, but also caused heavy damage to Fengtian's commercial and economic activities, especially in the area east of the Liaohe River.

In addition, there are also a large number of inherent problems in Fengtian. The first one is the endless bandits in Fengtian. Although two of the three bandits in Liaoxi were killed by Zhao Dongyun, and the remaining Feng Delin was also touched, there are still many small bandits left. There are dozens of these people and dozens of people. Bandits are almost all over the three eastern provinces, killing one after another, and even you have killed all the people in Liaoxi. It won't be long before the bandits from Liaodong, Jilin, and even Mongolia will quickly come to fill the gaps. In a few months, there will be bandits everywhere in Liaoxi.

Again, there is the problem of the army. This army does not refer to the training of the new army, but refers to the elimination of the old army. Zengqi can tolerate the old army such as the Eight Banners and the defense army, which does not mean that Zhao Dongyun can tolerate these old troops, so these eight flags, defense forces and so on have to be abolished, as well as the Fengtian patrol camp. In addition to the thousands of people in Feng Delin's hands, this patrol camp has some value, the other two roads are goods that even bandits can't beat. It's a waste of rice and food, so they have to be eliminated and reorganized.

It's just that after cutting off these old troops, it is estimated that they will make trouble. However, Zhao Dongyun is afraid that they will not make trouble. If they don't make trouble, he will have to take out a lot of money to demobilize them. If there is a mutiny, Zhao Dongyun will dare to kill all the rebels directly. He came to Shengjing and kill a lot of bandits and kill a few more groups of chaos. Soldiers are nothing.

Why did the Beiyang army dare to lay off the old and practice the new on a large scale in history? Other provinces can only make small trouble. It's not that Yuan Shikai has a large army, and as long as the soldiers dare to make trouble, he dares to kill. As the so-called name of people and the shadow of trees, whether it is Yuan Shikai or Zhao Dongyun, their power can be killed.

Therefore, among Fengtian's many affairs, military affairs are the best solved, because he is not that Zengqi has no military power but can only be an empty general. Zhao Dongyun holds nearly 20,000 new army in his hand. It is not a big problem whether it is to rectify the old army or train the new army in the future.

The real problem is civil affairs and finance, not to mention the economic development in civil affairs. It is not easy to resettle war refugees. Zengqi has been doing this before, but the results are not very good.

Secondly, it takes a lot of money to restore people's livelihood, relieve refugees, lay off the old and train the new, and half of Fengtian Province is now in a place where the Japanese and Russian armies are at war, and they can't collect any money under the spread of the war.

In addition, another trouble is that Zhao Dongyun does not have qualified civil affairs officials and a large number of staff. If he wants to successfully take office as General Shengjing, he must first recruit a large number of staff.

The feudal ministers of this era, whether it is Yuan Shikai, the governor of Zhili, Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, or Zhao Dongyun, who has just stepped into the ranks of Xinjiang ministers and holds half of Fengtian, are fully responsible for their jurisdiction and have full military, civil, financial, educational and other powers.

And these Xinjiang ministers need to be responsible for many affairs, so they have a complete staff team to assist Xinjiang officials in handling various affairs. They need talents from the military to civil affairs, to law and diplomacy, even water conservancy, coastal defense, etc., basically in a country. What institutions and talents do the central court need, then similar or similar institutions and personnel can be found in the shogunate of the imperial court.

Although Zhao Dongyun has just stepped into the ranks of Xinjiang ministers and nominally has a whole territory, due to the Russo-Japanese War, in fact, only one Liaoxi, Liaodong and Liaodong Peninsula are under the control of the Japanese and Russian armies, but occupying only the small territory of Liaoxi does not mean that he does not need many staff. .

Although the Shengjing General's mansion under Zhao Dongyun's territory is small and strength is small, the affairs that should be managed are indispensable, and there must be no less.

It's just that there are more officers under him who can fight, but there are few civil affairs officials and other types of talents who can serve as major positions. It is estimated that he can only find a few people in the headquarters of the third town. As for other civilian officials, there is no one.

So the first thing he was appointed by the court was to cast a net everywhere to gather talents. As long as he was not a revolutionary party and did not oppose Beiyang, and had a little talent, Zhao Dongyun would not hesitate to send a telegram to invite, and wrote a handwritten letter to some people who paid more attention to it.

Most of the people invited by Zhao Dongyun have known and known each other in recent years. Some of them have also heard of talents, and some of them have been recommended by others.

For example, Zhao E, who was in Guangzong, often drank and brag with Zhao Dongyun. Although he was not a foreign scholar, he was pragmatic. In recent years, he did not get along well. This time, Zhao Dongyun planned to invite him over.

And Deng Jiazhen, who was recommended by Zhao Erxun. After seeing him once, Zhao Dongyun felt that this person was still quite talented in civil affairs, so he did not care that he was recommended by Zhao Erxun, but prepared to be the governor of Fengtian.

At the same time, there is also Xiling. Zhao Dongyun has only heard of this person before but has never seen him, but he just heard that he had a good new policy in Hubei before, so he wrote a letter inviting him.

In addition to these people, Zhao Dongyun actually found more people within the Beiyang faction!

Zhao Dongyun has no talents, but it does not mean that Beiyang does not have it. It is estimated that there are not many traditional civil servants who play political means in the Beiyang system in this era, but the new talents who play foreign affairs are grasped.

In fact, there is no need for him to solicit. Zhao Dongyun's appointment as General Shengjing must come to an end. Every day, he can receive many telegrams and letters recommended by many people, and even many people who try to take the way to get errands.

In just three days, Zhao Dongyun had already recruited a staff team of more than ten people. The arrival of Zhao E, Deng Jiazhen, Xiong Xiling and others soon formed Zhao Dongyun's staff team. At the same time, Zhao Dongyun also accepted many officials under Zeng Qi.

I don't mention how strong these people are, but at least they set up the administrative team of General Shengjing's mansion and successfully took over Fengtian's military and civilian affairs.

While recruiting talents, Zhao Dongyun also appealed to the court, asking him to postpone going to Fengtian on the grounds that the situation is unstable and cannot be easily entered, and change to Jinzhou to handle affairs, and then return to Fengtian after Japan and Russia.

Then he went to Baoding to meet Yuan Shikai. On the one hand, he asked Yuan Shikai how to deal with Fengtian affairs, and on the other hand, he naturally showed loyalty to Yuan Shikai.

After seeing Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai said to him, "You are in Fengtian. The most urgent thing is to guard Liaoxi, and the rest can be postponed!"

Zhao Dongyun said, "There are 100,000 soldiers in Liaoning and West Africa. Now there is only one town and one association in the hands of the Ministry. I'm afraid it will be difficult to continue!"

Seeing Yuan Shikai, Zhao Dongyun's posture was quite low. He not only regarded himself as a junior, but also regarded himself as a subordinate in the past. He did not have the momentum of a Xinjiang minister at all. If he was seen by others, he would inevitably despise him.

Yuan Shikai said, "Take out your ability to lay off the old and practice the new, and you can practice another association if you eliminate those old military funds!"

Zhao Dongyun said, "If we forcefully eliminate the old army, I'm afraid it will cause chaos!"

Yuan Shikai snorted coldly: "Then kill all the people who should be killed!"

Zhao Dongyun waited for Yuan Shikai's words and immediately said, "With this sentence, I know it in my heart."

Yuan Shikai nodded: "Well, you also know how important Liaoxi is. For example, countless people in the field are staring at us today, just waiting for us to make mistakes and pick things. You can't give them an excuse!"

"Your Excellency, don't worry, with me, Zhao Dongyun, I won't lose a day in Liaoxi!" Zhao Dongyun quickly expressed his determination, but Yuan Shikai smiled and said, "It's good to have determination, but if you really want to fight, you still have to be cautious. You can't underestimate the lives of my Beiyang children!"

This almost told Zhao Dongyun that if he could resist, he would resist. If he couldn't resist, he would run away. If he lost Liaoxi, there was nothing, and even if he lost Beijing and Zhili, there was nothing, but the army in his hand could not be broken in.

Zhao Dongyun naturally said, "I remember. In addition, this is the Fengtian People's Policy I wrote before. Please see if there is anything wrong!"

After talking about military affairs, it's my turn to deal with people's livelihood. To be honest, playing with the new policy, Yuan Shikai's local governance is much better than Zhao Dongyun. He only glanced at Yuan Shikai and said, "These two points of relieving refugees and restoring people's livelihood are generally good, but I'm afraid it's difficult to solve if they need too much money!"

Zhao Dongyun said, "I want the court to allocate part of it, and then I will raise part of it myself in Fengtian!"

Yuan Shikai said, "Although the court household department is rich, it can't give you too much. If you want money, you have to find several provinces in the south. If you go back and ask each place to raise emergency funds, I can pass the secondment, but how much you can get from other provinces depends on your ability!"

Zhao Dongyun had to admire Yuan Shikai. The way he had thought of was to make money and ask for money from the household department, but Yuan Shikai's idea directly skipped these frameworks. One mouth was to ask for money from the southern provinces, which is worthy of being able to solve the tens of millions of military expenses in Beiyang every year.

Immediately, Zhao Dongyun said, "The governor of the world is headed by Zhili. At that time, please give me more support!"

Yuan Shikai smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about this. I will give you 400,000 yuan, and then I will give them my best to support in Shandong and Henan provinces. Is there more, but 100,000 yuan should be able to take out, with 600,000 yuan from these three provinces as an example, and other provinces It shouldn't be too little!"

Yuan Shikai's mouth is to solve the funding gap of 600,000 yuan for Zhao Dongyun. The feeling of relying on a big tree is different. If people from non-North Western factions become this Shengjing general, Yuan Shikai will take care of them. He will take the initiative to help send money there!

Zhao Dongyun estimated that he should be able to get more than one million taels of silver from other provinces, which should add up to about 1.5 million. With this money, he could barely clean up Fengtian's mess.

And when Zhao Dongyun recruited talents and raised money everywhere, the Second Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy, which spanned almost half of the earth, finally came to the Far East.

At this time, both the domestic princes and the great powers aimed their eyes on the Japanese and Russian navies!