With the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War at the beginning of the year, when people in the customs were discussing the current situation outside the customs, Wang Bin's name would always be mentioned in a few sentences. In addition, in order to alleviate the pressure of domestic public opinion, the Beiyang system headed by Yuan Shikai also made a series of propaganda to Wang Bin, telling the Chinese people that the people of Beiyang are still very concerned about the situation outside the Guan.

For this reason, a number of relevant photos of the new army outside the Guanxi during training were also displayed, and these photos not only included photos of the training, but also announced a batch of new equipment equipped with a batch of Beiyang new army, such as heavy machine guns and some artillery, reflecting the new look and combat effectiveness of Beiyang.

In addition, in addition to the training photos of the new army, a number of photos of officers in the fifth town were also announced, but in this it is still Wang Bin who has received the most attention from the outside world, in addition to Wang Bin now has the position of the minister of training outside the Guan, more because the current Wang Bin is still the commander of the fifth town of Beiyang, only twenty-five years old, is the fastest promoted officer in the current Beiyang system.

The reason why Yuan Shikai did this is to calm down public opinion in China is only one of the points, and more is to tell others that as long as you are talented and capable, then you can become a pivotal figure in the current situation like Wang Bin, but you will never talk about Wang Bin's background.

In this way, the image of the Beiyang New Army will be invisibly improved, and at the same time, it will also attract a group of talented people to serve Beiyang.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a reason why Beiyang was able to influence the political pattern at that time for half a century and became the largest political pattern.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a series of New Deal reforms led by Beiyang covered all aspects, from education to transportation, and then from communication to promoting the forced constitution of the Qing court.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the political status of the Beiyang system was in a golden age, and even though the Russo-Japanese War was forced to remain neutral during this period, the voice of criticism was not the mainstream.

Especially after Wang Bin was stationed in Jinzhou and Wang Yingkai was stationed in Shanhaiguan, he was able to further redeem public opinion, expand Beiyang's political influence in China, and express Beiyang's position to the Chinese people.

Of course, these public opinions have nothing to do with Wang Bin now, at least politics has nothing to do with Wang Bin for the time being, politics is a game that belongs to the upper echelons, and he has not yet reached that level.

The current Wang Bin just relied on this public opinion to make a small limelight, so that his name appeared in the eyes of the world, so that everyone in China knew that there was such a new No. 1 person as Wang Bin in Beiyang.

It can be said that the current Wang Bin can only be regarded as a little bit of fame in the country, but in the military and political circles, Wang Bin's fame is in full swing, and everyone in the military circles generally regards him as one of the many bigwigs of the new army, and because the fifth town is still stationed in Jinzhou, a strategic place, quite close to the war zone between Japan and Russia, so the name is constantly concerned by others in the military and political circles.

However, whether it is the attention of domestic public opinion or the military and political circles, Wang Bin can't be distracted at this time, and he is very busy during this time.

On the one hand, the last transaction with the Russians was, of course, extremely secret, only Wang Bin himself and Sun Chuanfang, who was in charge of transportation, knew about it, and the others did not know about it, and Ma Zikai only vaguely knew that he seemed to have some transactions with the Russians.

For the people who transported, so far Sun Chuanfang has made Wang Bin the most assured, after all, Sun Chuanfang and himself still have indirect kinship, he has not yet been loyal to that person, and Sun Chuanfang is now working for himself, if something goes wrong with this matter and is concerned by the above, he can't escape from it, and he can't escape with his relatives, so he is still very relieved about Sun Chuanfang Wang Bin.

Moreover, in order to ensure the safety of the transportation along the way, Wang Bin has been instructing his bandit suppression detachment to constantly clean up the bandits and bandits around the transportation line to ensure that there will be no accidents along the way.

Otherwise, if the Chinese people know about it, not to mention the destruction of neutrality, it will easily attract domestic public opinion pressure, and as for whether the Japanese know about it or not, it doesn't matter their own business, after all, they can still provide arms to the Japanese.

Since Wang Bin arrived in Jinzhou, he has carried out several rounds of bandits in order to transport the line, which can be said to have dealt a great blow to the bandits around the transportation line, especially in the vicinity of Jinzhou, the bandits have long been cleaned up, except for some bandits who do not know whether to live or die.

Although the main intention of launching bandits at the beginning was to be responsible for the task of maintaining law and order on the ground, but then it became a guarantee transportation line, and by the way, it obtained money in the hands of bandits, which indirectly gave great convenience to the local people's lives, at least these people would not be worried when they went out, and a few bandits would suddenly appear on the side of the road.

Since the beginning of the expansion, Wang Bin's recruits and veterans have begun to use live ammunition in their training, and they have also encouraged all battalions to constantly conduct confrontation drills to ensure that the combat effectiveness of the troops will not decline and to improve the command level of officers.

But this live ammunition shooting and training are very expensive things, although at the beginning of the expansion, the imperial court once issued an expansion fee, and there was a promotion fee when he first started, but it is not possible to want more, after all, now the imperial court has begun to train the new army on a large scale, and the entire Beiyang new army needs to spend money There are many places.

Therefore, in 1904, when the New Army was being organized and trained, the expansion funds of the Beiyang New Army could be counted in tens of millions, so even if Wang Bin received the expansion funds, he could only barely maintain the daily life of the army.

As for the military expenses issued, Wang Bin was basically used to buy bullets and shells, leaving only part of it for the daily life of the army, such as military salaries, but this situation is estimated to change after the arsenal begins to produce and he can secretly use the golden finger.

So much so that when it came time to pay the military salary, Wang Bin had to take out another part of the small treasury in the fifth town to pay the military salary.

And the source of the money in the small treasury of this fifth town was obtained from the bandits when they suppressed the bandits, and the opening fee at the time of the opening and trading with the Russians at that time was not too much, and about two or three hundred thousand were just used for emergency purposes.

But even so, Wang Bin still felt that the money on hand was a little insufficient, and he had to sigh: In this year, if you want to be a warlord or something, it is really not easy!