In the middle of January, the imperial court officially approved Zengqi's Ding Wei, and issued an edict within one day appointing Wang Bin as the "general of the town guarding Shengjing and other places" and the minister of the fifth town of the Beiyang Standing Army and the military training outside the customs.

Most of the officials in the late Qing Dynasty were in high positions, and most of them held many hats, so is Wang Bin now.

After the imperial decree, the American and Russian legations, as well as the Japanese and German legations, sent diplomats to celebrate.

At this moment, Wang Bin, who is far away in Jinzhou, has to deal with the congratulations of a large group of subordinates every day, and even the threshold of his own house is about to be stepped on in the past few days, but Wang Bin not only has to deal with these people who came to congratulate him, but also has to think about how to develop in the future and how to clean up the mess left by Zengqi.

After Wang Bin took over Mukden, due to the Russo-Japanese War, the Mukden area was mostly affected by the spread of war, which caused many refugees to come to the western Liaoning region in order to escape the war.

The war not only made a lot of refugees, but also made the economy of Fengtian also a mess, because the reason for the war in the Liaodong region is basically no shops and businesses, and another reason is that the current Fengtian area is not only because of the cause of the war, but also because of the bandits, the war has led to a large number of local bandits, and countless bandits are entrenched here, exterminated a batch of batches, like a weed that burns endlessly, endlessly, endlessly.

In the western Liaoning region where Wang Bin is located, everything is still normal, and because of Wang Bin's strict policy of suppressing bandits, bandits cannot be seen in western Liaoning, so the economic situation in western Liaoning is still good.

Therefore, the first problem in front of Wang Bin is the problem of public security in Liaodong, the problem of public security in Liaodong is easy to solve, but it is just to send troops to suppress bandits, and Wang Bin is still full of confidence in his soldiers in the matter of suppressing bandits.

Then there is the problem of the army, Zengqi recruited a large number of troops when he took office, these old armies basically did not have any combat ability under the command of Zengqi, and they were all some local chickens and dogs that were not worth mentioning, but since he is now the general of Shengjing, then he will carry out a major purge, and carry out a reduction of these old armies from top to bottom.

It's just that in the process of layoffs, there must be some troubles, but Wang Bin is not afraid of them making trouble, making trouble is a good thing, just to make an example of chickens and monkeys, if you don't make trouble, you will have to pay an extra sum of money to dismiss them, if you dare to make a mutiny, Wang Bin doesn't mind killing these rebels.

The reason why the Beiyang series can continue to eliminate the old army is that first of all, the behemoth of Beiyang is placed here, and no one dares to make trouble, and secondly, the elimination of the old army is supported by the imperial court, so Wang Bin is not worried that someone will take advantage of this.

Therefore, at present, these problems that can be solved completely by military strength are the best to solve, because these old armies are really not the opponents of the fifth town under Wang Bin, so it is not too difficult for Wang Bin to suppress bandits and cut out the old army and train the new army.

This real problem should be a problem of finance and people's livelihood, and now it is really a huge problem for Wang Bin to talk about economic development, and even the civil affairs have not been clear, so how can he talk about the economy?

Therefore, it is necessary to solve the problem of refugees before we can do the problem of economic development, but now the civil affairs have just begun and have not achieved much results.

Secondly, the resettlement of refugees and the relief of refugees require a lot of funds, but now that half of Mukden has been affected by the war, where will the tax come from?

In addition, there is the issue of officials and staff, and they can't rely on the army to manage the people.

Therefore, Wang Bin needs a large number of talents in internal affairs to assist him.

In this era, the superior may have time to care about nothing, so they all need staff to deal with all kinds of things for them, and these staff members are basically familiar with the law, diplomacy, civil affairs, and finance, just like a miniature imperial court, what kind of talent does the country need, what kind of talent does Wang Bin need now, and the feudal minister in this period is a soil emperor, so there is no difference between managing his own territory and managing the imperial court, if you want to say that there is a difference, That's a big and a small difference.

And although the Shengjing general on Wang Bin's head said that he could be in charge of the entire territory of Fengtian, but now Fengtian due to the Russo-Japanese War, Wang Bin can only manage the western Liaoxi region, and Liaodong and the Liaodong Peninsula have become battlefields at the moment, but even if Wang Bin can only control this place in western Liaoning, it does not mean that Wang Bin does not need a staff member.

Although the place under his management is small now, there is nothing less that should be done, but although there are many officers under Wang Bin's subordinates who can fight and fight, there is not a single talent for managing civil affairs and internal affairs.

Therefore, the first thing Wang Bin did after becoming the general of Shengjing was to recruit talent recruitment staff, as long as it was not a revolutionary party and a talent hostile to Beiyang, Wang Bin accepted it, and in order to attract a group of talents as soon as possible, Wang Bin also deliberately sent a telegram to invite him, and asked his uncle Wang Yingkai to recommend a group of staff.

Now Wang Bin's staff members basically invited some things by themselves, and some were invited by others.

For example, Xiong Xiling, this Xiong Xiling was originally supposed to follow Zhao Erxun, but Zhao Erxun never fought for himself, so the current Xiong Xiling is still under the hands of Shangshu Zaize, the branch of the degree.

You must know that Xiong Xiling is very good at finance, although Xiong Xiling is only a little famous at present, under a telegram from Wang Bin, he asked Xiong Xiling from the hand of the branch Shangshu Zaize.

Then there is a person named Liang Zilong, this person was recommended by Wang Yingkai, according to Wang Yingkai's letter to himself, this person is very good at internal affairs, so Wang Bin also accepted this person.

In addition, there are some people who come to take refuge in Wang Bin's men, not to mention how many abilities these people have, but they have established this team first, and in just three days, Wang Bin has formed his own staff, and has also accepted many officials under the original Zengqi.

In addition, Wang Bin also proposed to the imperial court to eliminate the old army of Fengtian, and reorganize the new army to maintain stability outside the Guan, but I am afraid that for the time being, the silver is far from enough, so I asked the court to allocate a part of the money.

Just when Wang Bin was busy, the ministers of the four countries came together to congratulate Wang Bin on his promotion.