Chapter 219 Enter Shenyang

On December 24, Zhao Dongyun led a large number of military and political dignitaries from the three eastern provinces to board the special train, and the train passed through the Beijing-Feng Railway, which had just been opened to Shenyang Railway.

When he walked out of the railway station, he saw many people coming to greet him, front of whom were many military and political dignitaries from the three eastern provinces.

There are many familiar commander Cao Kun of the fifth mixed brigade, Yang Debiao, the first secretary of the secretariat who came to the front station, and Zhou Ziqi, who is now the mayor of Yingkou City. In addition, Zhu Jiabao, the current governor of Jilin Province, who is like Zhao E, is Zhao Dongyun in the town. He met an old acquaintance during the Guangzong People's Rebellion. When he served in Nanhe County, he had the achievements of repelled the chaotic people and rescued hundreds of military training with dozens of county teams.

He was called the first official in Beijing by Yuan Shikai. After the Guangzong People's Insurrection, he was promoted to the governor of Baoding. During his tenure in Baoding, he had a lot of friends with Zhao Dongyun. Some time ago, he went to Japan to inspect government affairs. After returning to China, he was recruited by Zhao Dongyun, who was promoted to general of Shengjing. First, he served as the governor of Jinzhou, and then briefly served as the general office of the Bureau of Industry and Commerce. Zhao When Dongyun was promoted to governor of the three eastern provinces, he appointed Zhu Jiabao as the first governor of Jilin.

Now that there is a republic, Zhu Jiabao, like Cheng Dequan, has been appointed as the governor of Jilin.

At the same time, there are several people that Zhao Dongyun is not familiar with, including the former Heilongjiang general, the governor of Heilongjiang, Cheng Dequan, who was appointed as the governor of Heilongjiang after the Republic, and several other strange faces.

It is worth mentioning that although the three governors of the three eastern provinces are called governors, they are different from governors such as Zhang Huaizhi, Wang Ruxian and others. Zhang Huaizhi and others are worthy of provincial leaders. When the cabinet appointed them, it made clear their military political power.

Due to the new creation, many administrative habits of the Northern Republican government have inevitably been influenced by the pre-Qing era, which is reflected in the appointment of senior military and political officials, which largely imitates the appointment of the former Qing Dynasty. The official appointment of a provincial governor is 'civil governor of a certain province'. People's mouth is just simple. That's all.

However, the appointment of Cheng Dequan, Zhu Jiabao and others is a lack of the word 'military' in the civil affairs of a province, that is to say, in fact, this kind of appointment is similar to the governor who did not concurrently serve as the military power in the previous Qing Dynasty, with only administrative power, but no military power.

At this time, Zhao E, who had just been appointed as the governor of Fengtian by Zhao Dongyun, came over: "Commander, you are here!"

Zhao Dongyun looked at Zhao E and others and also smiled: "Everyone has worked hard during this period!"

Then he shook hands one by one and said a few greetings, and then went to the embassy with a large number of military and political dignitaries to visit the former three eastern provinces.

The visiting embassy of the three eastern provinces is set up in the vault alley, which is the original General Shengjing's mansion!

Originally, many people who came to the front station one step ahead of Zhao Dongyun wanted to set up the visiting embassy in Shengjing Palace, that is, the Shenyang Forbidden City in later generations, but Zhao Dongyun was afraid that he had a bad impression. Now they are all republican and still live in the palace. Wang Yingkai of the capital can withstand the ** of not staying in the Forbidden City. He Zhao Dongyun is even more difficult to live careless in Shengjing Palace, which is full of the meaning of feudal dynasty.

Besides, although Shenyang Forbidden City is a palace, it has not been lived there for hundreds of years. Occasionally, it has been repaired, but I don't know how long it will take to be renovated. It's better to live directly in Shengjing General's Mansion.

However, the pattern of the former General Shengjing Mansion is a little small, and it is also a traditional old-fashioned courtyard, which makes Fang Ruolian, who is used to living in Western-style foreign buildings, frown lightly.

Holding her husband's hand, Fang Ruolian showed an obvious dissatisfied look: "I don't like this place!"

As he spoke, he looked at the snowflakes on the ground, and then added, "It's too cold!"

Zhao Dongyun knew that she had always been afraid of the cold. When she was in Baoding, she felt cold. Later, when she and he arrived in Jinzhou, she couldn't stand it even more. Almost every winter, she would go south to Shanghai, nominally to visit her parents, but another main purpose is to avoid the cold. Now she comes to Shenyang, and it is still winter. However, don't expect her to look good in Shenyang.

Compared with Fang Ruolian's dissatisfaction, Li Wan beside her is looking forward to it. She was originally a local in Northeast China. Naturally, she would not be as afraid of the cold as Fang Ruolian, a Guangdong Xiangzhou native. On a cold day, she only wore a fox shawl and a pair of jade arms only wore thin glove gloves.

Although the general's mansion in front of her looks slightly dilapidated and far less beautiful than her own house, Li Wan doesn't care about this. What she thinks now is that she will live here with Zhao Dongyun in the future.

The relationship between Li Wan and Zhao Dongyun has long been a secret. Fang Ruolian still had opinions, but she has not been pregnant after several years of marriage, which put Fang Ruolian under great pressure from the Zhao family. Last year, the old lady of the Zhao family came to Jinzhou to visit her eunuch who had not returned home for many years. The old lady was Jinzhou hasn't given Fang Ruolian any good face for a month, so she almost scolded her directly to cut off the incense of her old Zhao family.

Although Fang Ruolian has been sticking to the bottom line of not allowing Zhao Dongyun to take a concubine, on the one hand, she is distressed that she has been infertile for many years. On the other hand, Li Wan was pregnant this spring, so she has no choice but to slowly accept the fact that Li Wan is Zhao Dongyun's lover, but she still does not allow Zhao Dongyun to officially accept Li Wan as her wife.

So although Li Wan is still anonymous with Zhao Dongyun, at least she can stay together openly. In the eyes of outsiders, she is Zhao Dongyun's aunt.

Zhao Dongyun bowed his head and said to Li San, "Uncle is not familiar with him and is old. You should help him settle down the husbands first, and then come forward!"

Li San said, "I know. I must help housekeeper Xu arrange it properly!"

Zhao Dongyun is naturally not in the mood and has no time to deal with the moving things in the backyard. Naturally, housekeeper Xu and Li San will deal with those matters, and they will definitely not let Fang Ruolian and Li Wan be wronged.

Compared with the need to be cleaned up in the backyard, the front office is already ready. Like all contemporary government offices, the inspection office of the three eastern provinces is also Zhao Dongyun's private house, and the front yard is the office space, that is, the inspection office.

When Zhao Dongyun walked into the front yard, he saw that it was busy, and a large number of office staff were walking in and out. Obviously, he had entered the office state.

At this time, Yang Debiao, the first secretary, came up in time: "Director Xiong, Mayor Zhou and Director Deng are all waiting!"

Zhao Dongyun nodded: "Since everyone has arrived, let's start!"

Although Zhao Dongyun has just arrived in Shenyang today, he has a lot of affairs and has no time to rest for him for a few days. The military defense of Jilin and Heilongjiang has just been arranged on the train. Within a few hours of getting off the train, the meeting on the preparation of Yingkou Industrial Zone has been waiting for him.

Entering the conference room, there are already many civil officials under Zhao Dongyun. Among them, there are mainly people from the financial and industrial and commercial systems, including Xiong Xiling, the new director of the Bureau of Finance Bureau, Deng Jiazhen, Director of the Bureau of Industry and Commerce, and Zhou Ziqi, the new mayor of Yingkou.

As soon as everyone was settled, Deng Jiazhen of the Industry and Commerce Bureau said, "According to the order of the marshal a month ago, we have now followed the regulations of Huludao Industrial Zone and proposed to open an industrial zone in Yingkou. Now all the preparations have been completed, and this is the detailed regulations for the preparation!"

Zhao Dongyun did not look through the plan of more than a dozen pages, but took a cursory look: "There are advantages in all aspects of Yingkou's industrial zone, but how to solve the traffic problem? If we still rely solely on inland river transportation in the past, I'm afraid we can't compete with Dalian!"

Although Dalian is a new city established on the eve of Gengzi, it has developed very rapidly with the help of Lushun Port and the Middle East Railway. Especially after Dalian and Lushun were jointly managed by many countries, the Lushun Concession Public Administration officially became the highest administrative agency of Lushun Concession, and was just established to announce Dalian and Lushun as Free ports and free cities welcome businessmen from any country to invest in business and live, and adopt low-tax and even tax-free policies to develop Dalian and Lushun.

There is a great momentum to build Shanghai in the north!

This led to Dalian becoming the most dynamic emerging industrial city in Northeast China in just a few months, and even Fuyuan Company went to Dalian to invest in opening a soybean processing plant. Although Dalian nominally belongs to Chinese territory, it actually did not pay even a dime of tax to Zhao Dongyun after it became a public concession, and Dalian also robbed a large number of investment opportunities that originally belonged to Yingkou, Huludao and Shenyang.

In the face of this situation, Zhao Dongyun naturally can't sit idly by. On the one hand, he hindered some policies of Lushun and Dalian through the three Chinese directors controlled by the board of directors of the Lushun Concession Public Administration. At the same time, he also increased the support policy for Huludao Industrial Zone. Now, he plans to build a Yingkou industry. District, in order to compete with Dalian.

In terms of transportation, we intend to follow the precedent of Huludao Industrial Zone and build a railway branch from Yingkou to Dashiqiao. At the same time, we will invest in dredging and expanding the construction of the port in Yingkou to further increase the ability to moor sea ships. In addition, many checkpoints in the Liaohe River have been rectified to make the transportation of the Liaohe River more smooth!" Zhou Ziqi, the new mayor of Yingkou City, is the direct head of Yingkou Industrial Zone, said so.

"To do this, how to solve the financial problem? How much can be solved in Yingkou? Can the Finance Bureau be supported by the budget? Zhao Dongyun knew that these plans were reasonable, but it took a lot of money to do these, whether it was the railway branch line, the dredging of the inland river and the expansion of the construction of the seaport. Without millions of silver, it is estimated that you can't even see the splash.

Xiling, director of the Finance Bureau, said with an embarrassed face, "The Finance Bureau is already seriously unable to make ends meet, and it is impossible to take out additional funds!"

In 1906, the financial situation of the three eastern provinces was extremely severe. The fiscal revenue of the three eastern provinces mainly depended on Fengtian Province, while Heilongjiang and Jilin were fiscally weak provinces and did not contribute much fiscal revenue.

As the financial pillar of the three eastern provinces, Fengtian Province, this year's fiscal revenue is only 20 million taels of silver at most. The majority of these 20 million taels of silver basically have to be used as military expenses, and another important expenditure 'administrative funds' also has to be squeezed out a lot, and the rest has to be given to education and other aspects, let alone the rest. How much, and there will be a huge gap to solve.

Since Xiling took office as the director of the Finance Bureau, it happened that Zhao Dongyun led his army to enter the customs. This combat funds have cost millions, and then the expanded army needs millions to be smashed down. It has completely crushed the finances of the three eastern provinces. It is more appropriate to say that the fiscal deficit is simple, and it is more appropriate to say bankruptcy. Of.

In the past two months, Xiling has not only tried his best to expand financial resources, but also by tearing down the west wall to repair the west wall, which has barely supported it until now. This can be seen from Xiong Xiling's haggard face that how much financial pressure is in the three eastern provinces is now and how much pressure Xiong Xiling has.

The Finance Bureau can't afford it, so it has to rely on Yingkou local self-financing to collect the money needed for Yingkou Industrial Zone.